Study The Past and Early Hominids Flashcards

Vocabulary flashcards covering methods of studying the past, anthropology, archaeology, and early hominid discoveries.

Artifacts

Evidence used by historians that includes clothing, coins, artwork, and written evidence.

Anthropology

The study of the development of people, including their cultures, way of life, belief systems, human bones, and physical changes.

Archaeology

A specialized branch of anthropology focused on the study of past cultures through material remains, buildings, and artifacts.

Mary and Louis Leakey

Researchers who discovered a skull embedded in a rock in East Africa in 1959.

Donald Johansson

Researcher who discovered a three millions years old early hominid skeleton in Ethiopia in 1974.

Homo sapiens

A species of hominid from which two groups arose.