Unit 1 Vocabulary: Beginnings

What is an archaeologist?

• a scientist who hunts for evidence buried in the ground

• a scientist who studies the mistakes of the past

• a scientist who studies human society

• a scientist who studies dinosaurs

What is an artifact?

• traces of plants or animals that have been preserved in rock

• weapon, tool, or or other thing made by humans and studied by archaeologists

• complex society with cities, government, art, religion, class division, and writing system

• a group of people who search for food

What is a civilization?

• traces of plants or animals that have been preserved in rock

• weapon, tool, or or other thing made by humans and studied by archaeologists

• complex society with cities, government, art, religion, class division, and writing system

• a group of people who search for food

What is a fossil?

• traces of plants or animals that have been preserved in rock

• weapon, tool, or or other thing made by humans and studied by archaeologists

• complex society with cities, government, art, religion, class division, and writing system

• a group of people who search for food

What is a hunter-gatherer society?

• traces of plants or animals that have been preserved in rock

• weapon, tool, or or other thing made by humans and studied by archaeologists

• complex society with cities, government, art, religion, class division, and writing system

• a group of people who search for food

If a farmer tames an animal for human use, it is called ____.

• farming

• specialization

• domestication

• nomad

When a society develops different kinds of jobs, it is ___.

• farming

• specialization

• domestication

• nomad

People who regularly move from place to place are

• farmers

• historians

• anthropologists

• nomads

Which came first?

• Paleolithic Age

• Neolithic Age

You are a ____, a person who studies and writes about the past.

• mathematician

• historian

• scientist

• musician