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| 79876001 | Neolithic Age | The New Stone Age between 8000 and 5000 b.c.e.; period in which adaptation of sedentary agriculture occurred; domestication of plants and animals accomplished. (p. 9) | 0 | |
| 79876002 | culture | Combinations of the ideas, objects, and patterns of behavior that result from human social interaction. (p. 10) | 1 | |
| 79876003 | band | A level of social organization normally consisting of 20 to 30 people; nomadic hunters and gatherers; labor divided on a gender basis. (p. 13) | 2 | |
| 79876004 | matrilocal | A culture in which young men upon marriage go to live with the brides' families. (p.15 | 3 | |
| 79876005 | Çatal Huyuk | Early urban culture based on sedentary agriculture; located in modern southern Turkey; was larger in population than Jericho, had greater degree of social stratification. (p. 25) | 4 | |
| 79876006 | Bronze Age | From about 4000 b.c.e., when bronze tools were first introduced in the Middle East, to about 1500 b.c.e.., when iron began to replace it. (p. 30) | 5 | |
| 79876007 | Civilizations | a complex, organized society that has advanced cities, a government, religion, record keeping and writing, job specialization, social classes, and arts and architecture | 6 | |
| 79876008 | Homo sapiens | The human species man that emerged as most successful at the end of the Paleolithic period. (p. 10) | 7 | |
| 79876009 | agrarian revolution | Occurred between 8000 and 5000 b.c.e.; transition from hunting and gathering to sedentary agriculture. (p. 16) | 8 | |
| 79876010 | matrilineal | Family descent and inheritance traced through the female line. (p. 15) | 9 | |
| 79876011 | Neolithic revolution | the shift from hunting of animals and gathering of food to the keeping of animals and the growing of food on a regular basis around 8,000 BC | 10 | |
| 79876012 | Paleolithic Age | The Old Stone Age ending in 12,000 b.c.e.; typified by use of crude stone tools and hunting and gathering for subsistence. (p. 9) | 11 | |
| 79876013 | savages | Societies engaged in either hunting and gathering for subsistence or in migratory cultivation; not as stratified or specialized as civilized and nomadic societies. (p. 23) | 12 | |
| 79876014 | Neanderthals | Species of genus Homo that disappeared at the end of the Paleolithic period. (p. 12) | 13 | |
| 79876015 | Natufian complex | Preagricultural culture; located in present-day Israel, Jordan, and Lebanon; practiced the collection of naturally present barley and wheat to supplement game; typified by large settlement sites. (p. 15) | 14 | |
| 79876016 | Pastoralism | A type of agricultural activity based on nomadic animal husbandry or the raising of livestock to provide food, clothing, and shelter. | 15 | |
| 79876017 | Jericho | Early walled urban culture site based on sedentary agriculture; located in modern Israeli-occupied West Bank near Jordan River. (p. 24) | 16 | |
| 79876018 | Social differentiation | the distinction made between social groups and persons on the basis of biological, physiological, and sociocultural factors, as sex, age, race, nationality, etc. | 17 |
