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7318162383Paleolithic Rock ArtArt that represented inner and outer life of gathering and hunting peoples.0
7318162384Venus figurinesThey were statues in the town of Willendorf Austria that showed strong feminine dimension and renewal of life and the goddess Venus.1
7318163770DreamtimeThe time of the first ancestors.2
7318163771Clovis cultureThis was where stone tools began; an Indian culture.3
7318167013megafaunal extinctionPlenty of animals became extinct because of the last ice age.4
7318168477Austronesian migrationsThe idea that the Austronesians migrated from Asia to the Pacific and expanded5
7318170601"the original affluent society"The idea that hunter-gatherers were the first peoples of society6
7318170602shamansPeople skilled specifically for spirits.7
7318170641trance danceA dance created that was believed to give access to spirits/ the spirit world.8
7318173164Paleolithic settling downSocieties began more permanent and larger complex buildings. This meant you could store food and with that societies kept advancing.9
7318173165San cultureThe San culture began about 5,000 years ago in Africa. They were more traditional and stuck to their old ways. They used art that is considered the "oldest artistic tradition[s] of humankind." Their tools were sufficient enough to get the work done but they hardly advanced.10
7318175173"insulting the meat"It takes skills to hunt, when a hunter has negative comments about what he/she is to kill about the size of quality of the kill such as pride, he would be considered to have weak skill.11
7318175174Chumash cultureThe Chumash culture began with 20,000 people and had "modern" technology compared to other societies. Technology innovation led to huge advancements in the society (the tomol/canoe). They were also a very resourceful environment with riches from diverse skill sets.12
7318180767Brotherhood of the TomolThe tomol was a canoe that was made with either redwood or pine and increased trade. The Brotherhood of the Tomel was in charge of the production of tools and knowledge of these boats and the sacred things in them.13
7331088326Neolithic Era"New Stone Age"14
7331089305Paleolithic Eraphysical changes (walking upright and bigger brains), technology (fire and tools), and migration that increased the population.15
7331092578Agricultureorganized farming of plants and animals16
7331093933Domesticationselective growing or breeding or plants and animals17
7331094778Animalsthey were domesticated before plants; goats and sheep, they would bred the better animals18
7331097384Proslife gets easier, villages, resources, less starvation, time for activities, religion, art, language, culture, bigger brains, tools, and more food.19
7331100599Consconflict/warfare, disease, dependence on weather for farming.20
7331103155Where was the beginning of human history?150,000 years ago in Africa. Africa to Eurasia, Australia, and the Americas to islands of the Pacific21
7331106476Eurasia45,000 years ago; Africa to Middle East to westward in Europe to eastward in Asia; cold climates pushed people south; cave paintings/ early forms of writing22

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