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Artifact |
an ancient object handmade by humans (pottery, tools) |
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Evidence |
something that proves or disproves something |
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Primary Source |
a firsthand or eyewitness account of an event (someone who was there at the event) |
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Secondary Source |
the retelling or explaining of an event by someone that was not there at the event |
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Point of View |
an opinion or how a person thinks about something |
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Bias |
when a person has unfair favoritism or is judgmental |
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CE |
Common Era |
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BCE |
Before Common Era |
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Hunter-gatherers |
people that hunt animals and gather wild plants for food to survive |
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Paleolithic age |
early stone age when people were hunters gathers and discovered fire |
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Nomads |
moving from one place to another for survival |
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Domesticate |
taming animals and plants for human use |
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Neolithic age |
new stone age and when people began settling and farming |
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Systematic agriculture |
farming / growing crops and raising animals |
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Specialization |
specific type of job |
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Technology |
things that were invented to make life easier for people |
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Surplus |
having an excess (more than enough) amount of something; extra |
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Prehistory
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Time before writing was invented
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History
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Written or recorded events from the past
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Archaeology
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to study of the past by looking at artifacts
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Paleontology
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the study of ancient life forms by looking at fossils
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Fossil
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what is left of something that was once living (ex. bones)
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Anthropology
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the study of human culture
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Timeline
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a line that represents events in the order they happened; chronological
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Ice Age |
time period of very cold about 100,000 years ago |