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remains: leftover objects or dead bodies
Historians study human events from the past. Prehistory is the fr
longest era of human history. It includes all events before writing.
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‘settlement: a small community of people
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disciplines to investigate this era:
+ Palaeontology studies fossils, These are the skeletal remains of lv
things that have been petrified and preserved in sedimentary rocks,
Archaeology studies the objects, utensils and monuments of pis
civilisations.
We divide Prehistory into three ages:
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This is the longest period of
Prehistory. Our ancestors learnt to
use fire, began making utensils, and
expressed themselves artistically.
Thanks to agriculture and
livestock, humans no longer
needed to be nomadic, and
People began making tools,
weapons and utensils out of
metals. Societies became more
became sedentary. The first stable complex.
settlements appeared,
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