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Who are hunter-gathers?
People who hunt animals and gather wild plants, seeds,fruits and nuts to survive
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What are the ice ages?
Long periods of freezing temperatures. The last one ended around 10,000 years ago
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What are megaliths?
Huge stones used as monuments like the ones at Stonehenge are called
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What are landforms?
The natural features of he land's surface
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What is archeology?
The study of the past based on what people left behind
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Who was Otzi?
He was found in mountains and was frozen in ice around 5,300
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What are cave drawings?
The art work of Prehistoric Era people tells us about their daily lives. Most of the art work from these peoples is in
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What is domestication?
The process changing plants or animals to make them more useful for humans is called
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What is environment?
Includes all the living and nonliving things that affect life in an area
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What is a secondary source?
Information gathered by someone who did not take part in or witness an event
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What is an ancestor?
A relative who lived in the past is known as
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What is the Mesolithic Era?
The age in which humans developed more advanced tools including fish hooks, canoes, pottery and the bow and arrow
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What is a society?
A community of people who share common culture is called
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What land bridges?
A strip of land connecting two continents. These allowed Stone Age people to migrate around the world.
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What is an artifact?
Objects created by and used by humans
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Who is Lucy?
Donald Johanson discovered the bones of this early homnid that lived more than 3,000 years ago
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What is the Neolithic Era?
Also known as the New Stone Age. It began as early as 10,000 years ago
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What is a tool?
Any handheld object that has been modified to help a person accomplish a task
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What is Africa?
Archeologists found some of the earliest human artifacts and fossils on this continent
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What is prehistory?
Historians call the time period before there was writing
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Who is Mary Leakey?
This famous archeologist found some of the earliest ancestors of humans in Olduvai Gorge
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What is the Paleolithic Era?
The first part of Stone Age. Also known as the Old Stone Age
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What is a primary source?
An account of an event created by someone who took part in or witnessed the event
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What is Antarctica?
By the end of the Ice Ages, humans populated every continent except
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