Vocabulary Review
1. Both fossils, the remains of living organisms, and artifacts, human-made objects, provide helpful clues to understanding our history.
2. Archaeologist digs up fossils and artifact at an early settlement, and an anthropologists is an archaeologist who studies these objects to understand the culture of the people who once lived there.
3. The songs and stories that make up the oral history of a group of people are an important part of the group’s culture.
4. An anthropologists is an archaeologists who studies culture.
5. To survive, hunter-gatherers lived as nomads, moving with the seasons to hunt herds of animals and gather fruits, nuts, roots, and seeds to eat.
6. During the Ice Age, land bridges formed that enabled the migration of Homo sapiens from one continent to another.
7. The rich nutrients in the fertile soil of the river valleys in the Fertile Crescent allowed people to practice agriculture, or the practice of growing plants and rearing animals for food.
8. Historians study primary sources, such as letters and tools, and secondary sources, such as biographies and history books, to understand and interpret historical events.
