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Details Title: Ch 2 Prehistory (HMS) Description: Early Man (HMS) Total Flash Cards: 31 Created: 09/30/2004 04:02:23	To study from this set of flash cards, or to create your own your own study flash cards, register HERE. If you are already a registered user, CLICK HERE.
Cards Term prehistory Definition period of time before the invention of writing Term burin Definition chisel-like tool used by Cro-Magnon man to make other tools Term civilization Definition a time when people progressed culturally and began to live in cities Term specialization Definition development of occupations Term home territory Definition area where bands searched for food; covered about 2 Sq. miles for each band member and it contained various campsites Term Homo Habilis Definition skillful man Term Homo Erectus Definition man who walks upright Term Homo Sapiens Definition man who thinks Term Neanderthals Definition first kind of Homo Sapien Term pitfalls Definition traps used by Neanderthal man to catch animals; it was a large hole covered with leaves and branches, as an animal crossed it they fell in Term Cro-Magnons Definition second kind of Homo Sapien Term Neolithic Definition New Stone Age Term Paleolithic Definition Old Stone Age Term domesticated Definition tamed; when captured animals lose their fear of humans and can be trained or controlled Term Lucy Definition hominid skeleton from 3.2 million BC; oldest, most complete skeleton of a hominid Term migrate Definition make their way; to move Term bands Definition groups of about 30 Paleolithic people who lived and worked together and shared food Term population Definition number of people Term Homo Erectus Definition first to make fire Term Neanderthals Definition buried their dead Term Homo Habilis Definition used fire but couldn't make it Term Australopithecus Definition human like hominids Term Cro-Magnons Definition used burin to make other tools Term Charles Darwin Definition wrote On the Origin of Species Term Anno Domini Definition In the Year of the Lord Term circa Definition around or about Term natural selection Definition nature chooses which species live and die Term survival of the fittest Definition phrase that means only the strong survive Term Creationism Definition idea that God created the world in 6 days Term Homo Erectus Definition first to migrate out of Africa Term Homo Habilis Definition first toolmakers