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Chapter 13
Human Origins and Prehistory-A Custom Edition
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Anthropology
Undergraduate 1
11/16/2008

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Term
Epipaleolithic
Definition
The cultural period in which these developments took plac eis usually now called the Epipaleolithic in the Near East and the Mesolithic in Europe
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Archaic
Definition

Period in which a switch called the broad-spectrum food-collecting, but they do not always show an increasingly settled lifestyle.

 

ie: Mesoamerica

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sedentarism
Definition
How and why people in differnet places may have come to cultivate and domesticate plants and animals and to live in permanent villages.
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Agriculture
Definition
Referring to all types of domesetic plant cultivation
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Neolithic
Definition

the presence of domesticated plants and animals.

 

In this type of culture pepole began to produce food rather than merely collect it.

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Domestication
Definition

"Taming and using for your own puposes"

 

Only when the crops cultivated and the animals raised are modified - different from wild varieties - that we speak of plant and animal domestication.

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Rachis
Definition

The seed-bearing part of the stem

 

on wild grains of barley and wheat

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Obsidian
Definition

Volcanic Glass

 

100% of chipped stone foudn by archaeologists was obsidian which came from what is now eastern Turkey, several hundred miles away.

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Food Production
Definition
The cultivation and domestication of plants and animals.
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