The values, attitudes, and customs of a group.
Culture
The human race
Humanity
An object made by a person
Artifact
The glowing remains of a fire
Embers
To rot away or spoil
Decay
One who is an expert of history
Historian
Having to do with the whole world
Global
To figure something out
Calculate
A hard metal made of a blend of copper and tin
Bronze
The hiding of the sun by the moon
Eclipse
A first-hand account of a historical event
Primary source
To explain something
Interpret
A way of measuring the radioactivity of historic artifacts to determine how old they are
Radiocarbon dating
An object or building that stands in place and is usually made of some kind of stone
Monument
A people who have cities and government; a large group of people with a high level of development as a group
Civilization
A second-hand account of a historical event, an account written by a person who was not there
Secondary source
The record of past events and the story of what happened to people in the past
History
A person who studies the beginnings and the behavior of people
Anthropologists
A well-educated person who has a great deal of knowledge about something
Scholar
A volcanic glass
Obsidian
An explanation of the meaning of something
Interpretation
A daily record of what happens to a person
Diary
A person who finds and studies the things humans left behind in the past
Archaeologist
A person who moves from place to place
Nomad
The time before humans left written records
Prehistory