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Culture | a society's knowledge, art, beliefs, customs, and values |
Artifacts | objects that people in the past made or used, such as coins, pottery, and tools |
Hominid | humans and early human-like beings that walked upright |
Paleolithic Era | Old Stone Age, lasted from around 2.5 million years ago to around 10,000 years ago |
Nomads | people moving from place to place as they followed migrating animal herds |
Hunter-Gatherers | hunting, fishing, and gathering wild plants, berries, nuts, and other foods |
Animism | the belief that all things in nature have spirits |
Neolithic Era | New Stone Age, began as early as 8000 BC and lasted until about 3000 BC |
Domestication | the selective growing or breeding of plants and animals to make them more useful to humans |
Neolithic Revolution | refers to the shift to farming |
Pastoralist | people who ranged over wild areas and kept herds of livestock on which they depended for food and other items |
Megaliths | huge stones for burial or spiritual purposes |
Bronze Age | occurred as early as 3000 BC in some areas, but much later in others |
Surplus | excess of food |
Division of Labor | economic arrangement in which each worker specializes in a particular task or job |
Traditional Economy | economic decisions are made based on custom, tradition, or ritual |
Civilization | a complex and organized society |
Artisans | skilled craftspeople, devoted their time to crafts such as basketry, carpentry, metalwork, or pottery |
Cultural Diffusion | spread of ideas, beliefs, customs, and technology from one culture to another |
Donald Johanson | an anthropologist who found a partial Australopithecine skeleton, described as his find |