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The way in which people live and work to satisfy their basic needs.
culture
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advanced cultures with farming, formed government, use of metals, and city living
civilization
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people who lived before writing was invented
prehistoric
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study of the origins, races, and customs of people, both ancient and modern.
- study how groups of people live (then and now)
anthropologists
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studies fossils and remains of ancient cultures
-studies fossils and remains of ancient cultures
archaelogists
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Study prehistoric artifacts and life styles
-study fossils, the hardend remains of life formsÂ
Paleontologists
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Study earth's surface (rocks, minerals)
-figure out how old the earth is
Geologists
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Geologists believe the earth is how old
4.5 billion years old
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"upright walking man"
homo erectus
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"thinking man"
homo sapiens
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Archaeologists studied in Ethiopia
Louis and Mary Leakey
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Paleoanthropolgist who found "Lucy" in Ethiopia
Donald Johanson
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Louis and Mary Leakey pieced together a complete skull from fragments where?
Olduvai Gorge in Tanzania
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Peking man
found in china
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neanderthal man
found in gorge in Germany
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Cro-Magnon Man
art found in cave in Altamira, Spain
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2 million BC - 3 million BC
Stone age
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fire, lived in caves, use stone clubs, religion developed
Paleolithic(Old Stone Age)
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Microlith lived near water, clay for pottery(sun dried), ostracism used
Mesolithic (Middle Stone Age)
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Plant seeds, begin farming, live in communties, bake pottery in hot oven, hold water
Neolithic (New Stone Age)
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Polar ice caps expanded, glaciers gradually moved toward the equator and eventually melted, retreating toward the poles
Ice Age
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Use copper and tin, invent wheel, wheel pottery (symmetrical, many pots), government develops
Bronze Age
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