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| 7250710704 | austronesian migrations | The last phase of the great human migration that established a human presence in every habitable region of the earth. Austronesian-speaking people settled the Pacific islands and Madagascar in a series of seaborne migrations that began around 3,500 years ago. |  | 0 |
| 7250716990 | Brotherhood of the Tomol | A prestigious craft guild that monopolized the building and ownership of large oceangoing canoes, or tomols, among the Chumash people (located in what is now southern California) |  | 1 |
| 7250722581 | Chumash culture | Paleolithic culture of southern California that survived until the modern era |  | 2 |
| 7250725285 | Clovis culture | The earliest widespread and distinctive culture of North America; named from the Clovis point, a particular kind of projectile point. |  | 3 |
| 7250732854 | Dreamtime | A complex worldview of Australia's Aboriginal people that held that current humans live in a vibration or echo of ancestral happenings |  | 4 |
| 7250736578 | Flores man | A recently discovered hominid species of Indonesia |  | 5 |
| 7250739479 | Hunters/gatherers | people who live by collecting food rather than producing it. These societies depended much more heavily on gathering than on hunting for survival. |  | 6 |
| 7250744310 | great goddess | a dominant deity of the paleolithic era |  | 7 |
| 7250746882 | Hadza | a people of northern Tanzania, almost the last surviving Paleolithic society. | 8 | |
| 7250749155 | human revolution | the transition of humans from acting out of biological imperative to dependence on learned or invented ways. | 9 | |
| 7250754051 | Ice Age | Any of a number of cold periods in the earth's history; the last was at its peak around 20,000 years ago | 10 | |
| 7250757944 | insulting the meat | a San cultural practice meant to deflate pride that involved negative comments about the meat brought in by a hunter and the expectation that a successful hunter would disparage his own kill. | 11 | |
| 7250761342 | Jomon culture | A settled paleolithic culture of prehistoric Japan, characterized by seaside villages and the creation of some of the world's earliest pottery. | 12 | |
| 7250765291 | megafaunal extinction | dying out of a number of large animal species, including the mammoth and several species of horses and camels, that occurred around 11,000-10,000 years ago, at the end of the lIce Age. The extinction may have been caused by excessive hunting or by the changing climate of the era. |  | 13 |
| 7250774822 | Neanderthals | homo sapiens neanderthalensis, a European variant of Homo sapiens that died out about 25,000 years ago. |  | 14 |
| 7250778536 | n/um | Among the San a spiritual potency that becomes activated during "curing dances" and protects humans from the malevolent forces of gods or ancestral spirits. | 15 | |
| 7250783712 | Paleolithic | literally "old stone age"; the term used to describe early Homo sapiens societies in the period before the development of agriculture. | 16 | |
| 7250791012 | Paleolithic Rock art | Whlie this term can refer to the art of any gathering and hunting society, it is typically used to describe the hundreds of painting discovered in Spain and France and dating to about 20.000 years ago; these paintings usually depict a range of animals, although human figures and abstract designs are also found. |  | 17 |
| 7250812860 | settling down | the process by which some Paleolithic peoples moved toward permanent settlements in the wake of the last Ice Age. Settlement was marked by increasing storage of food and accumulation of goods as well as growing inequalities in society. |  | 18 |
| 7250820204 | San | A Paleolithic people still living on the northern fringe of the Kalahari desert in southern Africa | 19 | |
| 7250823404 | shaman | a person believed to have the ability to act as a bridge between living humans and supernatural forces, often by means of trances induced by psychoactive drugs. |  | 20 |
| 7250826505 | trance dance | a ritual held to activate a human being's inner spiritual potency to counteract the evil influences of gods and ancestors. The practice was apparently common to the San. | 21 | |
| 7250832422 | Venus figurines | Paleolithic carvings of the female form, often with exaggerated breasts, buttocks, hips and stomachs, which may have had religious significance |  | 22 |
| 7251430041 | Husbandry | The raising of animals |  | 23 |
| 7251431015 | Homo Sapien | A species of the creatures Hominid who have larger brains and to which humans belong, dependent of language and usage of tools; also known as humans |  | 24 |
| 7251433548 | Sahul | A continent during the last Ice Age comprising of mainland Australia, Tasmania, New Guinea, Seram, and neighboring islands. |  | 25 |
| 7251438000 | Lasceaux Paintings | Painting found on a cave wall in Lasceaux France from c. 18,000 years ago; demonstrated that there were humans in Europe during the last Ice Age. |  | 26 |
| 7251443897 | Egalitarian | Characterized by belief in the equality of all people, especially in the political and social life. | 27 | |
| 7251447278 | Khosian | A southern African language group characterized by the use of "clicking" sounds | 28 | |
| 7251448391 | Bantu | A major African language family. Collective name of a a large group of sub-Saharan African languages and of the peoples speaking these languages. Famous for migrations throughout central and southern Africa. |  | 29 |
