Stone Age Flash Cards

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archeologist

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Person who studies artifacts from past civilizations to learn how they lived

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Homo-habilis

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Early man known to be "handy"

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Homo-erectus

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early man with a more upright stature

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Homo-sapien

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Most advanced and developed man

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hominins

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those species regarded as human, directly ancestral to humans, or very closely related to humans.

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Paleolithic Era

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early phase of the Stone Age

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Mesolithic Era

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Middle Stone Age, adapting to a warmer climate and warmer ecosystems after the Ice Age

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Neolithic Era

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New Stone Age, marked a transition from a hunter-gatherer lifestyle to settled farming communities, leading to the foundations of modern civilization

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nomads

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people who have no permanent home, they move from place to place in search of resources to survive

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migration

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seasonal movement of animals from one region to another