220298775 | C.e. | common era | 0 | |
220298776 | B.c.e. | before common era | 1 | |
220298777 | Evolution | a process in which something passes by degrees to a different stage (especially a more advanced or mature stage) | 2 | |
220298778 | Paleolithic age | second part of the Stone Age beginning about 750,00 to 500,000 years BC and lasting until the end of the last ice age about 8,500 years BC | 3 | |
220298779 | Neolithic age | latest part of the Stone Age beginning about 10,000 BC in the middle east (but later elsewhere) | 4 | |
220298780 | Venus figurines | small Paleolithic statues of women with exaggerated sexual features | 5 | |
220298781 | Agricultural revolution | The time when human beings first domesticated plants and animals and no longer relied entirely on hunting and gathering | 6 | |
220298782 | Slash-and-burn agriculture | Another name for shifring cultivation, so named because fields are cleared by slashing the vegetation and burning the debris. | 7 | |
220298783 | Shanidar cave | Iraq- individual found with amputated arm, arthritis, & partially blind (Neandertal) Shows care for one another? | 8 | |
220298784 | Jomon society | Paleolithic settlement in central Japan. | 9 | |
220298785 | Natufian society | eastern Mediterrean society (Israel and Lebandon); one of the earliest | 10 | |
220298786 | Chinook society | A third society that settled permanently. They settled in the Pacific Northwest. They had sources of berries, acorns, and salmon. | 11 | |
220298787 | Australopithecus | the earliest humanlike creature that flourished in eastern and southern Africa 3 to 4 million years ago | 12 | |
220298788 | Homo erectus | extinct species of primitive hominid with upright stature but small brain | 13 | |
220298789 | Homo sapiens | the only surviving hominid | 14 | |
220298790 | Neandertal | extinct robust human of Middle Paleolithic in Europe and western Asia | 15 | |
220298791 | Cro-magnon | early groups of homo sapiens | 16 | |
220298792 | Patriarchal society | male-dominated society | 17 |
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