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| Period of the human past before writing was invented |
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| The story of the human past |
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| Development that separates prehistory from recorded history |
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| Folktales that explain the past |
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| The way of life of a people |
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| The number of people who live in a given area |
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| Person who studies the human past |
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| The study of people, their environments, and their resources |
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| Scientist who studies the earth |
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| Scientists who studies the remains of ancient peoples and civilizations |
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| Society centered around cities |
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| Any surviving object made by early people |
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| Large, extended kinship unit |
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| Digging into the earth to find ancient remains |
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| To decode an ancient language |
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| Careful hunting for facts or evidence |
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| Idea about how something happened |
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| To determine how old a historical find is |
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| Scientist who studies languages and written records |
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| Scientist who studies the origin and development of human beings |
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| Term for father-related society |
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| Term for mother-related society |
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| Scientist who studies fossilized remains of early life |
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| Period when the northern continents were buried under ice and snow |
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| Before the birth of Christ |
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| Anno Domini, the years after the birth of Christ |
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| First period of human history |
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| Huge, slowly moving masses of ice and snow |
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| Years in between glacial times |
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| Exceptionally long period of time |
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| Period of time figured from some particular date |
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| These were formerly used to date archaeological sites |
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| Radioactive element used to date ancient objects |
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| The shift from food hunting and gathering to food producing |
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| When the Neolithic Age began |
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| Years of the Paleolithic Age |
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| 2.5 Million to 8000 B.C.E. |
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| When the last Ice Age ended |
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| Continent where the earliest humanlike remains have been found |
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| Muscular prehistoric people who were not ancestors of modern humans |
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| Prehistoric people who closely resembled modern humans |
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| Characteristic that allowed humans to use their hands freely |
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| Skill that allowed humans to pass along knowledge |
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| Characteristic that allowed humans to store and use more information than animals |
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| different from a Cro-Magnon |
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| Sloping forehead, thick eyebrow ridges, |
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| Prehistoric dweller on a Southeast Asian island |
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| Prehistoric dweller of China |
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| When Homo sapiens emerged |
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| When Cro-Magnon people emerged |
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| The color of this depended on the climate where people lived |
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| People who have lived in Australia since prehistoric times |
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| A 3.5 million-year-old female humanlike skeleton found in Ethiopia |
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| River in western Germany where Neanderthal remains were first found |
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| Term for creatures that walk upright |
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| Earliest (Paleolithic) ways of getting food |
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| Earliest clothing material |
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| Resource used both for cooking and as a weapon |
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| Huge wooly creature, often hunted |
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| How Neanderthals disposed of their dead |
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| Neolithic ways of securing food |
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| New, Neolithic living arrangement |
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| Neolithic invention used for cooking and food storage |
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| Neolithic clothing material |
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| Neolithic material that began to replace stone |
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| Neolithic invention that was the basis of transportation |
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| Neolithic invention that was a machine to weave cloth |
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| Material mixed with clay to produce pottery |
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| People who wandered from place to place, as Old Stone Age people did |
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| Hardened lava from volcanoes, used as mirrors |
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| Methods of shaping stone in the Old Stone Age |
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| Methods of shaping stone in the New Stone Age |
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| Neanderthal religious belief about death |
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| First domesticated animal |
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| Mobile way of life that depended on large herds of livestock |
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