Vocabulary
The act of training for a particular job.
What is specialization?
The ones who discovered Lucy
A large division of time
What is an era?
People who regularly moved from place to place.
What are nomads?
The first cutting tool.
What is flint?
An object made by people.
What is an artifact?
People who study culture and how it develops over time.
What are anthropologists?
July is named for the person who invented this way to measure time.
What is the Julian calendar?
The main activity of Paleolithic people.
What is finding food?
These were used to make nets, baskets and to sew hides together.
What are needles?
A class of individuals with similar characteristics
What is a species?
An example of this type of job may be going through someone's trash or artifacts in a tomb.
What are Archaeologists?
BC means Before Christ was born. This is what happened when they took religion out of it.
What is BCE or Before Common Era.
Famous paintings were made to tell stories at this site.
What are the Caves of Lascaux?
What is fire?
A time when glaciers covered much of the land
What is the Ice Age?
Someone like Nancy Drew or Inspector Gadget.
What is a detective?
A way to track the passage of time
What is a land bridge?
They used them to drive animals off of cliffs. Too bad they didn't have fire to help them.
What are clubs?
A place where people worship
What is a shrine?
Who is Howard Carter?
Lucy was discovered a long time ago, in 1974. She was part of this species.
What is Australopithecus afarensis?
The Agricultural Revolution
Ooga booga grunt grunt
What is the development of language?