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History
6th Grade
10/09/2008

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prehistory
Definition
is history that happened befor the invention of writing
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evidence
Definition
proof, rather then written words
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archaeologist
Definition
locate and study the things left behind by people
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paleoanthropologist
Definition
stud the answers of modern people
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paleoanthropologist
Definition
stud the answers of modern people
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fossil
Definition
remains of once-living things
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excavate
Definition
to uncover by digging
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band
Definition
small groups
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artifact
Definition
human-made object,especially from long ago
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raidocarbon dating
Definition
scientific prosses that tells the age of something once living by measuring the amount of radioactive carbon it contains
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extinct
Definition
no longer exsiting
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migration
Definition
movement of a group of people from one place to another
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ice age
Definition
long cold weather period when hugesheets of ice covered parts of the earths surface
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glacier
Definition
a huge sheet of slowly moving ice
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tundra
Definition
cold, treeless plain whosesubsoil is permaently frozen
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culture
Definition
unique way of life that sets a group of people apart from others
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socitey
Definition
organized group of people living and working under a set of rules and traditions
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