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Anthropology Vocab - Ch. 5 "The Neolithic Revolution..."
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Anthropology
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02/18/2010

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Neolithic
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The New Stone Age; prehistoric period beginning about 10,000 ya in which peoples possessed stone-based technologies and depended on domesticated crops and/or animals
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Mesolithic
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The Middle Stone Age of Europe, Asia & Africa beginning about 12,000 ya
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Archaic Cultures
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Term used to refer to Mesolithic cultures in the Americas
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Microlith
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A small blade of flint or similar stone, several of which were hafted together in wooden handles to make tools' widespread in the Mesolithic
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Natufian Culture
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A Mesolithic culture living in the lands that are now Isreal, Lebanon, and western Syria, between about 10,200 and 12,500 ya
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Innovation
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Any new idea, method, or device that gains widespread acceptance in society
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Primary Innovation
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The creation, invention, or discovery by chance of a completely new idea, method, or device
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Secondary Innovation
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The deliberate application or modification of an existing idea, method, or device
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Domestication
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An evolutionary process whereby humans modify., either intentionally or unintentionally, the genetic makeup of a population of plants or animals, sometimes to the extent that members of the population are unable to survive and/ or reproduce without human assistance
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Vegeculture
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The cultivation of domesticated root crops such a syams and taro
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Horticulture
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Cultivation of crops carried out with simple hand tools such as digging sticks or hoes
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Diffusion
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The spread of certain ideas, customs, or practices from one culture to another
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Neolithic Revolution
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Domestication of plants and animals by peoples with stone-based technologies, beginning about 10,000 ya and leading to radical transformations in cultural systems; sometimes referred to as the Neolithic transition
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Mesoamerica
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The region encompassing southern Mexico and northern Central America
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Agriculture
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Intensive crop cultivation, employing plows, fertilizers, and/ or irrigation
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Pastoralism
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Breeding and managing migratory herds of domesticated grazing animals, such as goats, sheep, cattle, llamas, or camels
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