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196961645austronesian migrationsThe 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. (pron. aws-troe-NEEZH-an)0
196961646clovis culturethe Paleo-American culture of Central America and North America1
196961647hunter-gatherers (gathering and hunting peoples)people who hunt animals and gather wild plants, seeds, fruits, and nuts to survive2
196961648human revolutiona rapid expansion 50,000 years ago of Homo sapiens within and out of Africa. These modern hominids created art, practiced ritual burials, and displayed other indications of sophisticated3
196961649Jomon cultureCreated by early migrants to Japan after 3,000 BCE; hunting-and-gathering people, produced distinctive pottery form.4
196961650n/um(!kung) A non-violent healing principal that involves the massaging of one another for their well being. "Intimate" This levels and empowers everyone in the society.5
196961651paleolithicsecond part of the Stone Age beginning about 750,00 to 500,000 years BC and lasting until the end of the last ice age about 8,500 years BC6
196961652paleolithic settlingA revolution in farming and the forming of civilizations7
196961653trance dancecommunal rituals structured around rhythmic movements of the body, everyone has a well defined role to help the dancer reach, perform, and return from a trance.8
196961654brotherhood of the TomolA prestigious craft guild that monopolized the building and ownership of large oceangoing canoes, or tomols (pron. toe-mole), among the Chumash people (located in what is now southern California).9
196961655dreamtimeThe time in the Aboriginal belief system when all living things were created10
196961656great goddessMother Earth: needed and worshipped for: 1. fertility of humans 2. fertility of crops 3. fertility of domesticated animals Belief emerges in Paleolithic age.11
196961657Ice Ageany period of time during which glaciers covered a large part of the earth's surface12
196961658megafaunal extinctionDying 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 Ice Age. The extinction may have been caused by excessive hunting or by the changing climate of the era. (pron. meg-ah-FAWN-al)13
196961659original affluent societyMarshall Sahlins; scarcity has been banished not by boosting production, but by reducing economic wants to minimum ~~ Hunter Gatherer ppt.14
196961660paleolithic rock artOften represents aspects from outer life in the form of animals and hunters, usually are combined parts of humans and animals.15
196961661ju/hoansiforagers, hunter/gatherer. africa16
196961662Venus figurinessmall Paleolithic statues of women with exaggerated sexual features17
196961663Chumash culturePaleolithic culture of southern California that survived until the modern era.18
196961664Flores manA recently discovered hominid species of Indonesia.19
196961665HadzaA people of northern Tanzania, almost the last surviving Paleolithic society.20
196961666insulting the meatA 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.21
196961667NeanderthalsIn Europe, another human species lived and adapted to life in the cold climates of the last Ice Age.22
196961668shamanin societies practicing shamanism: one acting as a medium between the visible and spirit worlds23

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