Unit 1 Early Humans Key Terms

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Culture

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The shared behaviors and beliefs of a group that a person learns from the people they grow up and interact with.

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Cultural literacy

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The ability to understand and participate fluently in a given culture.

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Geography

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The study of the physical features of the Earth and of human activity as it affects and is affected by those features.

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Five Themes of Geography

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Location, Place, Region, Movement, and Human-Environment Interaction.

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Authagraph Map projection

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Considerd the most accurate projection due to “...its way of showing relative areas of landmasses and oceans with very little distortion of shapes. One key feature of an AuthaGraph projection is its way of showing the Earth with no dead ends or ending points.”

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Anthropologist / Anthropology

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A person who studies human groups and cultures.

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Evolution

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The process by which animals, plants, and other living organisms are transformed into different forms by the accumulation of changes over successive generations.

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Hominids

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A primate of a family (Hominidae) that includes humans and their fossil ancestors and also (in recent systems) at least some of the great apes.

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Australopithecines (Lucy)

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Lived around 3.5 million years ago and is one of the most important and well-documented human ancestors because of the discovery of Lucy, proving humans were bipedal during this time of human evolution.

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Homo habilis

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Lived around 2 million years ago, at the beginning of the Paleolithic Era, differentiated by the use of stone tools to chop and cleave.