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| 7266212441 | Paleoanthropology | the study of the earliest humans and their environment | 0 | |
| 7266214160 | Myth | An interpretive story of the past that cannot be verified historically but may have a deep moral message | 1 | |
| 7266217141 | Caste | A hierarchical ordering of people into groups, fixed from birth, based on their inherited ritual status and determining whomst they may marry and eat with | 2 | |
| 7266221125 | Teleology | The philosophical study of final causes or purposes. Teleology refers especially to any system that interprets nature or the universe as having a design or purpose. It has been used to provide evidence for the existence of God | 3 | |
| 7266225991 | Hominid | Any of a family (Hominidae) of erect bipedal (two legged) primate mammals, which includes humans and human-like species | 4 | |
| 7266229821 | Homo Sapiens | Homo, "human" is the genus in which modern humans are placed; sapiens means "wise" | 5 | |
| 7266233556 | Homoerectus | The most widespread of all prehistoric hominids, and the most similar to humans. Evolved about 2 million years ago and became extinct 100,000 years ago | 6 | |
| 7266239164 | B.P | Before the Present. Archaeologists frequently use this notation, especially for dates before about 20,000 BCE | 7 | |
| 7266242358 | Homo Sapiens Sapiens | The first human being of the modern type | 8 | |
| 7266243328 | Shaman | In religious beliefs of some African, Asian, and American tribes, a person capable of entering into trances and believed to be endowed with supernatural powers, with the ability to cure the sick, find stolen property, predict the future, and protect the community from evil spirits. A ____ may act as a judge or priest, directs communal sacrifices and escorts the souls of the dead to the next world | 9 | |
| 7267636482 | Neolithic | "New Stone Age" the last division of the Stone Age, immediately preceding the development of metallurgy and corresponding to the 9th to the 5th millennia. It was characterized by the increasing domestication of animals, crops, established agricultural communities, and the appearance of such crafts as pottery and weaving | 10 | |
| 7267653345 | 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 | 11 | |
| 7267663387 | Diffusion | The spread of ideas, objects, or traits from one culture to another | 12 | |
| 7267667610 | State | Several definitions; here used for the total political organizations of a group of people controlling their own territory | 13 | |
| 7267674004 | Ziggurat | A temple tower of 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 | 14 | |
| 7267687735 | Prehistory | Everything that occurred before the invention of writing | 15 | |
| 7267690949 | Pictogram | (pictograph) A pictorial symbol or sign representing an object or concept | 16 | |
| 7270197129 | Cuneiform | A writing system in use in the ancient Near East from around the end of the 4th millennia to the 1st century BC. The earliest examples are in Sumeria. The name derives from the wedge-shaped marks made by pressing the slanted edge of a stylus into soft clay | 17 | |
| 7270210378 | Bas-Relief | In sculpture, relief is a term for any work in which the forms stand out from the background. In ______, the design projects slightly from the background and the outlines are not outlined | 18 | |
| 7270224580 | Ideogram | (alternative: ideograph) A character or figure in a writing system in which the idea of a thing is represented rather than its name. Ex: Chinese | 19 | |
| 7270232202 | Hieroglyphs | The characters in a writing system based on the use of pictograms or ideograms. In ancient Egypt, hieroglyphs were largely used for monumental inscriptions. The symbols depict people, animals, objects, which represent words, syllables or sounds | 20 | |
| 7270246860 | Mastaba | A low rectangular bench-like structure that covered a grave. The architectural forerunner to the pyramids | 21 | |
| 7270253413 | Transhumance | The practice of shifting residence and livestock between mountains and valleys to the season of the year | 22 |
