The Distant Past (Topic 1; Lesson 1)

The study of how human beings behave, how they act together, where they came from and what makes one group of people different from another

• artifact

• hunter-gatherer

• anthropology

• culture

To decide; to bring something to an end

• fossil

• geologist

• prehistory

• conclude

A scientist who studies life in the past by studying the things that people left behind; this scientist is most concerned with artifacts that tell us about prehistoric times

• geologist

• anthropologist

• cartographer

• archaeologist

Information used to prove something

• evidence

• hunter-gatherer

• prehistory

• paleolithic

Time before human beings invented writing.

• artifact

• renaissance

• prehistory

• conclude

Beliefs, customs, and practices of a particular group of people or a nation

• evidence

• culture

• artifact

• archaeologist

A person that lives by hunting animals or gathering fruits, berries, and other plants

• caveman

• hunter-gatherer

• geologist

• anthropologist

An object made by a human being; these can be studied to find out about the past

• archaeology

• geography

• artifacts

• anthropology

A scientist that studies the physical materials of the earth itself, such as soil and rocks

• geologist

• cartographer

• archaeologist

• historian

Preserved remains of ancient human, animal, or plant

• prehistory

• culture

• fossil

• globe/map