Social Studies Fossils Flashcards

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What is an archaeologist

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A person that studies bones fossils and artifacts

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What is an anthropologist

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Person that studies cultures of people

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What is an artifact

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A human made object

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What is culture

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The way of life of a group of people that includes language customs and the way they do things

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What are fossils

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Remains of early life found in the ground

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What is a hominid

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Beings that walk on 2 feet like humans

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What is an Australopithicines

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Being that lived from 4.5 million BC to 1 million BC

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What is a Homo habilis

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Being that lived 2.5 million BC to 1.5 million BC

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What does habilis mean

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Man of skill

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What is a Homo erectus

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Being that lived from 1.6 million BC to 250,000 BC

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What I s a Homo sapien

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A being that Lived from 400,000 BC to present time

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What is the origin mean

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The beginning

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What did Donald Johnson find

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Lucy

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What did Louis and Mary Leaky find

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Footprints of an Australopithicines

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What did Richard leaky find

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Complete Skelton of Homo erectus

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What did Tim white find

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Ape like fossil of a new type of hominid

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What year did Donald Johansson find Lucy

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1974

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And what year did Louis and Mary leaking find footprints of an Australopithicines

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1978

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What year did Richard Leakey find the complete skeleton of a Homo erectus

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1984

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In what year did Tim White find the apelike fossils of a new type of hominid

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1990

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What was the Paleolithic age also called

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Old Stone Age

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What was the Mesolithic age also called

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The middle Stone Age

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What was the Neolithic age also called

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The new Stone Age

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What tools and what kinds of people did the Paleolithic age have

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Hunters and gatherers simple tools and the Homo erectus and the Homo habilis

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What kind of tools and people did the Mesolithic age have

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Hunted Specific animals grindstones contain fire develop language needles thread harpoons and spears

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What kind of tools and people did the Neolithic age have

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Raised animals grew crops made villages and lived in them and made pottery polished stone tools and at this time only the Homo sapiens

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What does technology mean

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Apply knowledge of tools and inventions