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Shannon's History
Man's Progress in Prehisoric Times
vocabulary | Definition |
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Remains | A kind of record that prehistoric people have left. Remains are parts of tools. Weapons and bones |
Fossils | Another kind of records. Fossils are traces of animals or plants of past ages that have been preserved in earth, rocks, or clay |
Archeologists | The scientists who study the remains of prehistoric people. they discribe prehistoric homes, tools and weapons |
Anthropologists | scietists who study man. From studing the fossilized skeletons they try to describe what early people may have looked lke |
Geologists | study the history of the earth. They determan the age of fossils, remains and the earliest living things. |
sites | places where prehistoric remains may be found |
radioactive dating | One method used to determne the age of objects one thousand years old and back to billions of years old. |
Ice Ages | It is the name for what Scientists believe are four period when so much earth was covered by ice |