Vocab. Chapter 1
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| 212518324 | Evolution | A process in which something passes by degrees to a different stage (especially a more advanced or mature stage) | 0 | |
| 212518325 | Neolithic Age | The New stone age which went from about 8000 B.C to 3000 B.C. People who lived during this learned to polish stone tools, make pottery, grow crops, and raise animals. | 1 | |
| 212518326 | Paleolithic Age | The Old Stone Age, which lasted from 2.5 million to 8000 B.C. where the invention of tools, fire, and language took place. | 2 | |
| 212518327 | Venus Figurines | Figures of women with enhanced sexual characteristics, thought to promote fertility Significance: showed that early humans were capable of religion, deep thought, self-reflection | 3 | |
| 212518328 | Agricultural Revolution | The time when human beings first domesticated plants and animals and no longer relied entirely on hunting and gathering | 4 | |
| 212518329 | Slash-and-Burn Agriculture | Another name for shifring cultivation, so named because fields are cleared by slashing the vegetation and burning the debris. | 5 | |
| 212518330 | Shanidar cave | Neanderthal burial site--individual buried in cave with flowers (pollen) Evidence of compassion--individual was previously horribly wounded, but survived--had to have been taken care of by someone | 6 | |
| 212518331 | Jomon society | Another society that permanently settled. This society settled in Japan because of sources of wild buckwheat and fish. | 7 | |
| 212518332 | Natufian society | One society that took permanent settlement during the Paleolithic times. Few others settled permanently during this time. The Natufians settled near modern Israel and Jordan. They settled permanently because of their large food source (wild buckwheat and fishing). | 8 | |
| 212518333 | Chinook society | A third society that settled permanently. They settled in the Pacific Northwest. They had sources of berries, acorns, and salmon. | 9 | |
| 212518334 | Australopithecus | the earliest humanlike creature that flourished in eastern and southern Africa 3 to 4 million years ago | 10 | |
| 212518335 | Homo erectus | extinct species of primitive hominid with upright stature but small brain | 11 | |
| 212518336 | Homo sapiens sapiens | subspecies of Homo sapiens | 12 | |
| 212518337 | Neandertal | extinct robust human of Middle Paleolithic in Europe and western Asia | 13 | |
| 212518338 | Cro-Magnon | lived 40,000 years ago; skeleton of modern man, spear throwers, planned hunts | 14 | |
| 212518339 | Patriarchal society | A society where the father is the head of the family. Southern families became more patriarchal when families became more secure. This dampened some of the power the female population in the South had. | 15 | |
| 212518340 | Homo sapiens | A species of the creatures Hominid who have larger brains and to which humans belong, dependent of language and usage of tools. | 16 |
