Chp 1
Terms
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- thermoluminescence dating
- can date back 200,000 years by measuring the light given off by electrons around the object
- radiocarbon dating
- can date back only 50,000 years by measuring the about of radiocarbon left in the object
- homninids
- first human
- australopithcines
- "southern apes" type of hominids
- homoerectus
- "upright human being"
- homo sapiens
- "wise human being" came after homoerectus
- neaderthals
- a type of homo sapiens who were the first to bury the dead
- homo sapiens sapiens
- "wise wise human being" closest to todays humans
- paleolithic age
- "old stone" 2,500,000 to 10,000 B.C. when humans used simple stone tools
- nomadic
- people who move place to place
- neolitic revolution/age
- a time when people switched from hunting animals and gathering food, to keeping animals and growing food
- mesolitic age
- taming of animals and growing of food
- neolithic farming villages
- early towns based on farming
- archaeology
- the study of past societies using what they have left behind
- anthropologists
- use artifacts to study how people lived