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people who dig at sites where people have left traces |
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people who expand and revise our picture of the prehistoric past |
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Objects that people in the past made or used, such as coins pottery and tools |
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Humans and early humanlike beings that walked upright |
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people who moved place to place as they followed migrating animal herds |
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people who hunted fished and gathered wild plants berries and nuts |
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the selective growing or breeding of plants and animals to make them more useful to humans |
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the spread of ideas beliefs customs and technology from one culuture to another |
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"handy man" used crude stone tookd for chopping and scraping |
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"upright man" used early stone tools learned to control fire migrated out of Africa |
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"wise man" migrated around the world learned to create fire and developed a language |
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the largest neolithic site that archaeologists have found |
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What are the 7 Characteristics of a civilization? |
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-cities -government -religion -social classes -specialization of labor -writing and record keeping -art |
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