History Vocab
Digging up history firsthand!
Terms
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- megalith
- the remains of a huge artifact such as a statue
- prehistory
- events that happened before the invention of writing
- radio carbon dating
- a scientific method for determining the age of once living things by measuring the amount of carbon 14 remaining
- migration
- movement of groups of people from one place to another
- oral tradition
- the legends, myths, and beliefs that a culture passes from generation to generation by word of mouth
- excavate
- to uncover artifacts or fossils by digging
- fossil
- the remains or imprint of a once living thing
- pot shards
- broken peices of pottery used to date artifacts or fossils
- pirmary source
- a firsthand account; a record made by a person who saw or took part in the actual event
- chronology
- a record of events in the order in which they happen
- kitchen midden
- an ancient trash heap
- artifact
- an object made by or shaped by humans from long ago
- ice age
- long periods of time where glaciers advance and retreat, covering large parts of the earth's surface
- cultural diffusion
- the exchange of ideas and material goods from one culture to another
- archeologist paleoanthrologist
- a scientist who locates and studies things left behind by people
- secondary source
- a second hand account; a record based upon a primary source