Grade 6 Unit 1 Illustrated Glossary

archaeologist a scientist who studies human history by digging up human remains and artifacts skoolshopblog.blogspot.com

artifact usually a simple object such as a tool or ornament showing human work and representing a culture or a stage in the development of a culture

B.C.E. measuring time Before the Common Era (before the birth of Christ)

Catalhoyuk Neolithic site in present day Turkey

fossil remains, impression, or trace of a living thing of a former geologic age, as a skeleton, footprint

C.E. Common Era; the global standard used to count years based on the traditionally reckoned year of the birth of Christ

migration movement from one country, place, or locality to another

Neolithic later part of the Stone Age when people used ground or polished stone weapons and implements

Neolithic Revolution a fundamental change in the way people lived from hunting and gathering to agriculture led to permanent settlements en.wikipedia.org

nomadic having no fixed home and moving according to the seasons from place to place in search of food, water, and grazing land

obsidian a dark natural glass that forms when hot molten or semifluid rock from a volcano cools geology.com

Paleolithic early phase of the Stone Age, lasting about 2.5 million years, when primitive stone implements were used anthrowiki.at

sedentary staying or living in one place instead of moving to different places

tribal a group of people that includes many families and relatives who have the same language, customs, and beliefs, and leader theprimalparent.com

turning point the point at which a very significant change occurs mrsommerglobal10.pbworks.com