Social Studies-Digging Up The Past
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- glacier
- a huge sheet of ice covering a great stretch of land
- their resources
- what early American cultures relied on for their development
- Monte Verde, Chile
- place where the oldest artifacts on Earth were discovered
- technology
- the way in which humans produce the items they use
- parts of East Africa
- where the first people lived
- geography
- the study of the relationship between physical features and climate
- migrated
- to move from one area to another
- how the New Stone Age ended
- when humans discovered metals and metalworking
- 3.5 million years ago
- how long ago the first people lived
- 12,500 years old
- how old the Monte Verde artifacts were
- by mixing ground rock with saliva or animal fat
- how paints for cave art were made
- variety of landforms, climates, and soil
- what produced many different cultures in Europe
- agriculture
- the raising of plants and animals for human use
- 11,000 years old
- how old the Clovis artifacts were
- 10,000 years ago to 5,000 years ago
- how long the New Stone Age lasted
- apple trees
- type of trees grown in mild climates
- climate
- an area's average weather conditions over a long span of time
- what artifacts can tell us
- what ancient people hunted, what they used to make clothing and shelter, the food they ate and gathered, whether or not they were nomads
- landform
- surface feature such as a valley, plain, or hill
- carbon dating
- a method scientists use to estimate the age of a living thing after it has died
- dog, goats, and sheep
- animals humans first began to domesticate because they were very useful
- fish and shellfish
- fish that were harvested by ancient people due to their location near the seashore
- physical features of the earth
- what encouraged the development of cultures
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- how many people a typical Stone Age village housed
- stone, peach pebbles, and bone
- items people used to make tools
- surplus
- extra supply
- how the beginning of the New Stone Age was marked
- by the widespread use of polished rock tools
- how people from Europe, Asia, and Africa reached the Americas
- ancient people crossed Beringia
- by raising sheep and cattle and farming
- how villagers survived
- culture
- the technology, customs, beliefs, and art of a group of people/ the way in which people react to their environmENT
- what humans began to do when the Ice Age ended
- grow plants as food crops and domesticate their animals
- Old Stone Age
- first part of the Stone Age when little progress was made
- how social divisions were created
- because there was a surplus of food, so people divided up the work
- archaeology
- the study of past cultures through things that remain
- books, newspapers or letters
- things that prehistoric people did NOT leave behind for us to understand how they lived
- 3.5 million years ago to 10,000 years ago
- how long the Old Stone Age lasted
- excavation site
- place where archeaologists dug up artifacts
- Ice Age
- time when large portions of the earth were covered in glaciers
- anthropology
- the study of how people developed and lived in cultural groups
- nomad
- person who travels from place to place
- harvest
- to gather
- 70 years ago
- when archeaologists found a variety of human made objects near Clovis, New Mexico
- prehistory
- the period of time berfore people developed a system of writing and written language
- 1991
- year the Iceman was found
- pictures from cave art
- where much of the information scientists know about ancient people came from
- domesticate
- to tame wild animals or plants
- archaeologist
- scientist who carefully uncovers evidence or clues from the past
- grains, beans, peas, and lentils
- Europe's major crops for ancient people
- artifacts
- objects made by people long ago
- what researchers do
- compare and analyze the ages of thousands of artifacts
- how domestic animals survive
- by depending on humans
- hikers in the Alps
- who found the Iceman
- places of spiritual and healing rites
- what caves served as to ancient people
- northern Spain and southern France
- where most prehistoric cave paintings are located
- Beringia
- a huge land bridge, replaced today by the Bering Strait, that was once able to stretch from Asia to North America because seas were lower than today's
- by the tools he carried, the clothes he wore, and by the food he ate
- how archealogists were able to determine when and how the Iceman lived
- what plant remains tell us
- how plants were domesticated
- Stone Age
- period of time when people relied primarily on stone tools
- citrus trees
- type of trees grown in warmer climates
- New Stone Age
- second part of the Stone Age when great progress was made