Uncovering the Past 1
The study of the past is known as what?
What is history?
People who study history
What are Historians?
The time before there was writing
What is prehistory?
People who hunt animals and gather wild plants, seeds, fruits, and nuts to survive
What are hunter-gatherers?
Long periods in our Earth's past which consisted of freezing weather
What are the ice ages?
A part or imprint of something that was once alive.
What is a fossil?
The knowledge, beliefs, customs, and values of a group of people
What is culture?
Any handheld object that has been modified to help a person accomplish a task
What are tools?
A community of people who share a common culture
What is a society?
The discovery of _____________ provided a source of warmth, protection, and method for cooking food
What is fire?
Objects created by and used by humans
What is an artifact?
The term "B.C.E." stand for....
What is Before Common Era?
What is an ancestor?
The process of changing plants or animals to make them more useful to humans
What is domestication?
Early humans __________ from place to place in search of food
What is migrated?
What does the term "B.C." stand for?
What is Before Christ?
The study of the past based on what people left behind
What is archaeology?
An early ancestor of humans?
What are homindis?
the devlopment of farming from the domestication of plants
What is agriculture?
The New Stone Age is also known as the _____________ Era?
What is the Neolithic Era?
An account of an event created by someone who took part in or witnessed the event
What is a primary source?
Information gathered by someone who did not take part in or witness an event
What is a secondary source?
The first part of the Stone Age is known as the ________________ Era?
What is the Paleolithic Era?
The event that seperates the Old Stone Age from the New Stone Age which allowed humans to settle in one place
What is the Agricultural/Neolithic Revolution?
The strip of land which connected Asia to North America
What is the land bridge?