Fossils- the preserved remains or traces of animals, plants, and other organisms buried in the earth’s surface

Archaeologist- a scientist who study the past by excavating the remains buried underneath the earth’s surface

Paleoanthropologist- combines the discipline of paleontology and physical anthropology to study the evolution of human beings

Paleontology- is the scientific study of history, starting with the Holocene Epoch roughly 11,700 years before present