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| 6532282897 | Venus Figurines | Paleolithic carvings of the female form, often with exaggerated breasts, buttocks, hips, and stomachs, which may have had religious significance (key word: may! ) | 0 | |
| 6532287258 | Dreamtime | a complex worldview of Australia's Aboriginal people that held that current humans live in a vibration or echo of ancestral happenings. | 1 | |
| 6532292469 | Clovis Culture | The earliest widespread and distinctive culture of North America; named from the Clovis point, a particular kind of projectile point. | 2 | |
| 6532294381 | 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 Ice Age . The extinction may have been caused by excessive hunting or by the changing of the climate of the era. | 3 | |
| 6532309812 | 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. | 4 | |
| 6532316568 | the original affluent society | term coined by the scholar Marshall Sahlins in 1972 to describe Paleolithic societies, which he regarded as affluent NOT because they had so much but because they wanted or needed so little. | 5 | |
| 6532321071 | Shamans | in many early societies, people 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. | 6 | |
| 6532339650 | Trance dance | In San culture, a nightlong ritual held to activate a human being's inner spiritual potency (N/um) to counteract the evil influences of gods and ancestors. ( The practice was apparently common to the Khoisan people, of whom the Ju/'hoansi are a surviving remnant.) | 7 | |
| 6532345273 | Paleolithic settling down | the process by which some Paleolithic peoples moved toward permanent settlement in the wake of the last Ice Age. Settlement was marked by increasing storage of food and accumulation of goods as well growing inequalities in society. | 8 | |
| 6532348722 | Gobekli Tepe | a ceremonial site comprising 20 circles made up of carved limestone pillars located in SE Turkey. The site, which dates to 11,600 years ago, was built by gathering and hunting people who lived at least part of the year in settled villages. | 9 | |
| 6532354315 | Fertile Crescent | Region sometimes known as SW Asia that includes the modern states of Iraq, Syria, Israel/ Palestine, and southern Turkey; the earliest home of agriculture. | 10 | |
| 6532358070 | teosinte | the wild ancestor of maize | 11 | |
| 6532361907 | Diffusion | the movement of people goods, and especially ideas. An example would be the gradual spread of agricultural techniques, without extensive population movement. *In AP this is sometimes referred to as syncretism (blending of cultures...) | 12 | |
| 6532366400 | Bantu migration | the spread of Bantu-speaking peoples from their homeland in what is now southern Nigeria or Cameroon to most of Africa, in a process that started ca. 3000 B.C.E. and continued for several millennia. | 13 | |
| 6532370087 | Ishi | the last surviving member of a gathering and hunting group known as the Yahi who lived in northern California. His people were driven into extinction during the second half of the 19th century by the intrusion of farming and herding "civilized societies." | 14 | |
| 6532373240 | Banpo | A Chinese archeological site, where the remains of a significant Neolithic village have been found. | 15 | |
| 6532389082 | Secondary products revolution | a term used to describe the series of technological changes that began ca. 4000 B.C.E., as people began to develop new uses for their domesticated animals, exploiting a revolutionary new source of power. | 16 | |
| 6532394492 | Pastoral societies | Human societies that rely on domesticated animals rather than plants as the main source of food; pastoral nomads lead their animals to seasonal grazing grounds rather than settling permanently in a single location. | 17 | |
| 6532398149 | Catalhuyuk | an important Neolithic site in what is now Turkey. | 18 | |
| 6532400934 | Chiefdoms | societal groupings governed by chiefs who typically rely on generosity, ritual status, or charisma rather than force to win obedience from the people. | 19 |
