unit 1-chapter 2
Terms
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- Konrad Spindler
- German arceaologist who anaylyed the 5,000 year old" iceman" found in the Alps 1991
- prehistory
- the period before events were recorded in writing
- history
- The story or record of what has happened in the past
- excavate
- to dig or scoop out the earth
- secondary source
- a record of the past based on information from primary sources
- oral tradition
- the passing on of history, beliefs, or customs by word or mouth
- decision
- A choice made from numbers of allternitives
- artifact
- an object made by someone in the past
- archeolgy
- the study of remainsof past cultures
- primary source
- A first hand account of a eveny or an artifact created during the period of history studied
- evaluate
- to judge
- Iceman
- a man from the neothitic age found from the Alps found in 1991
- Alps
- Europes highest mountains extending in an arc from the Mediterainian coast to the Ballean peninsula