Early History of Man

Archaeologist: a specialist in archaeology, the scientific study of prehistoric people and their culture by analysis of their people.

Artifact: any object made by human beings especially with a view to subsequent use.

Australopithecine: a member of the extinct genus Australopithecus

Bison: a North American, ox like ruminant, Bison bison, having a large head and high, humped shoulders.

Cave art: paintings and engravings on the walls of caves and rock shelters.

Cro-Magnon: an upper Paleolithic population of humans, regarded as the prototype of modern homosapiens.

Culture: the quality in a person or society that arises from a concern for what regarded as excellent in arts, letters, and manners.

Domesticate: to convert (animals, plants, etc.) to domestic uses; tame.

Excavate: to make hollow by removing the inner part.

Extinct: no longer in existence.

Fossil: any remains, impression, or trace of living thing of a former geologic age, as a skeleton.

Glacier: an extended mass of ice formed from snow falling and accumulating over the years and moving very slowly, either descending from high mountains, as in valley glaciers, or moving outward from centers of accumulation, as in continental glaciers.

Grasslands: an area, as a prairie, in which the natural vegetation consists largely of perennial grasses.

Hominid: any of the modern or extinct bipedal primates of the family hominidae, including all species of the genera homo and all Australopithecus.

Homoerectus: an extinct species of the human lineage, formerly know as pithecanthropus erectus having upright stature and a wellevoled postcranial skeleton, but with a smallish brain, low forehead, and protruding face.

Homohabilis: an extinct species of upright East African hominid having some advanced humanlike characteristics.

Homo sapien: the species of bipedal primates to which modern humans belong, characterized by a brain capacity averaging 1,400 cc (85 cubic in.) and by dependence upon language and the creation and utilization of complex tools.

Hunter/ gatherers: a person who hunts game or other wild animals for food on the spot/ to bring together into one group, collection, or place.
Ice Age: A time period when the earth was covered with ice.

Louis and Mary Leaky: two of the foremost fossil hunters of the 20th century, are know for their many discoveries relating to early evolution.

Migrate: to go from one country, region, or place to another.

Neanderthal: of or pertaining to Neanderthal man.

Nomad: a member of a people or tribe that has no permanent abode but moves about from place to place, usually seasonally and usually a traditional route or circuit according to the state of the pasturage or food supply.

Paleolithic era: a prehistoric era distinguished by the development of the most primitive stone tools discovered, and covers roughly 99% of human technological prehistoric.

Prehistoric: of or pertaining to the time or a period prior recorded history.

Society: an organized group of persons associated together for religious, benevolent, cultural, scientific, political, patriotic, or other purposes.

Stone Age: the period in history of humankind, preceding the Bronze Age and the Iron Age, and marked by the use of stone implement and weapons.

Technology: the branch of knowledge that deals with the creation and use of technical means and their interrelation with life, society, and the environment.

Theory: a group of general propositions, commonly regarded as correct, that can be used as principles of explanation and predication for a class of phenomena.