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| 7221275826 | Paleoanthropology | the study of the earliest humans and their environments | 0 | |
| 7221277558 | Myth | an interpretive story of the past that cannot be verified historically but may have a deep moral message | 1 | |
| 7221278589 | Caste | a hierarchical ordering of people into groups, fixed from birth, based on their inherited ritual status and determining whom they may marry and with whom they may eat | 2 | |
| 7221283245 | Teleology | the philosophical study of final causes or purposes. | 3 | |
| 7221285547 | Teleology | refers especially to any system that interprets nature or the universe as having design purpose. it has been used to provide evidence for the existence of God. | 4 | |
| 7225552452 | hominid | Any of the family of erect bipedal primate mammals, which includes humans and humanlike species | 5 | |
| 7225560584 | Homo sapiens | means wise human | 6 | |
| 7228832369 | Homo erectus | the most widespread of all prehistoric hominids, and the most similar to humans. evolved about two million years ago and became extinct 100, 000 years ago. | 7 | |
| 7228840473 | B.P. | Before the Present | 8 | |
| 7228849406 | B.P. | archaeologists frequently use this notation, especially for dates before about 20, 000 B.C.E. | 9 | |
| 7228851799 | Homo sapiens sapiens | the first human being of the modern type | 10 | |
| 7228856476 | shaman | in the religious beliefs of some African, Asian, and American tribal societies, a person capable of entering into trances and believed to be endowed with supernatural powers, with the ability to cure the sick, find lost or stolen property, predict the future, and protect the community from evil spirits. | 11 | |
| 7228864260 | shaman | may act as a judge or ruler, and, as a priest | 12 | |
| 7228866107 | shaman | directs communal sacrifices and escorts the souls of the dead to the next world. | 13 | |
| 7228927089 | Neolithic | "New Stone Age," the last division of the Stone Age, immediately preceding the development of metallurgy and corresponding to the ninth to fifth millennia B.C.E. It was characterized by the increasing domestication of animals and cultivation of crops, established agricultural communities, and the appearance of such crafts as pottery and weaving. | 14 | |
| 7228938513 | Innovation | the explanation that similar cultural traits, techniques, or objects found among different groups of people were invented independently rather than spread from one group to another. | 15 | |
| 7228943626 | diffusion | the spread of ideas, objects, or traits from one culture to another. | 16 | |
| 7228948305 | state | the total political organization of a group of people controlling their own territory. | 17 | |
| 7228951643 | ziggurat | a temple tower of ancient Mesopotamia, constructed of square or rectangular terraces of diminishing size, usually with a shrine on top built of blue enamel bricks, the color of the sky. | 18 | |
| 7228964919 | prehistory | everything that occurred before the invention of writing | 19 | |
| 7228966319 | pictogram | a pictorial symbol or sign representing an object or concept | 20 | |
| 7228970022 | cuneiform | a writing system in use in the ancient Near East from around the end of the fourth millennia to the first century B.C.E. The earliest examples are in Sumerian. The name derives from the wedge-shaped marks made by pressing the slanted edge of a stylus into soft clay. | 21 | |
| 7228989267 | bas-relief | in sculpture, relief is a term for any work in which the forms stand out from the background. in bas-relief, the design projects only slightly from the background and the outlines are not undercut. | 22 | |
| 7228992712 | ideogram | a character or figure in a writing system in which the idea of a thing is represented rather than its name. Languages like Chinese use these. | 23 | |
| 7229024239 | hieroglyphs | the characters in a writing system based on the use of pictograms or ideograms. | 24 | |
| 7229026927 | hieroglyphs | in ancient Egypt, hieroglyphics were largely used for monumental inscriptions. The symbols depict people, animals, and objects, which represent words, syllables, or sounds. | 25 | |
| 7229035941 | Mastaba | a low, rectangular, benchlike structure that covered a grave. The architectural forerunner of the pyramid. | 26 | |
| 7229038138 | Transhumance | the practice of shifting residence and livestock between mountains and valleys according to the season of the year. | 27 | |
| 7273173340 | homo neanderthalensis | name given for fossil found in 1864 which archaeologists thought was in the middle stage of evolution between humans and non-human primates | 28 | |
| 7273176410 | Australopithecus Africanus | "southern ape-like creature of Africa" found in 1924 by professor Raymond Dart. was a 2 million year old ancestor to humans | 29 | |
| 7273179145 | Australopithecus Afarensis | "lucy" the earliest known hominid from 3.2 million years ago. | 30 |
