Chapter 1 Flashcards

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