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8318965606Hunter-gatherersHunter-gatherers rely on foraging and collecting food as their main food supply. Hunting animals, fishing, and gathering plants etc. NOT food producers.0
8319004700Paleolithic EraPaleolithic = Old Stone Age. people were hunter-gatherers who lived in small bands and had a low population density. Used stone blades and points, tools made from bones, and grindstones too.1
8319094230Homo sapiensEmerged in Africa 200,000-250,000 years ago. Used tools, hunted and fished, adapted to nearly every environment on earth!2
8319104391Blombos CaveCave in South Africa used as an Ochre Workshop. Helps to illustrate what Paleolithic peoples did. (Body ornaments, beads, pigments for cave art or body).3
8319194691Ice AgeLowered Sea-levels, created ~land-bridges~.4
8319215382Cave ArtPaintings of animals, humans, human hands, and abstract design.5
8319224506Venus FigurinesPaleolithic Age figurines depicting the female figure. Carved from stone, antlers, mammoth tusks, occasionally some were baked clay.6
8319282919Aboriginal AustraliansThey developed 250 languages, collected bulbs, roots, tubers and others, also hunted and fished.7
8319329273DreamtimeStories, extended ceremonies, and evocative rock art that all told a creation story. (From Aboriginal Australians).8
8319348974PituriAddictive drug traded by the Aboriginal Australian people.9
8319374067Clovis PointThe Clovis culture emerged 13,000 years ago in THE AMERICAS. They camped along springs, rivers, and waterholes. Named after their distinctive projectile point.10
8319405518MoaA flightless bird endemic to New Zealand, pushed to extinction in the first century after humans arrived.11
8319422477KinshipPaleolithic societies of 25-50 people.12
8319432191Neanderthal manExtinct Species of homininae13
8319435748Shamansreligious authorities/ritual specialists, (priests, medicine men etc.)14
8319478328Trance DanceRitual or spiritual dance that puts its performer in a trance like state.15
8319486873'Ceremonial space'Caves with rock art which were far from living areas, (used/reserved only for ceremonies).16
8319501862AnimismEverything is animated by spirit, (rocks, plants etc.).17
8319509549Global WarmingCaused plants and animals to flourish.18
8319518142Neolithic EraNeolithic Era = New Stone Age. In this age we see the beginning of agriculture and animal domestication.19
8319534138Agricultural RevolutionDeliberate Cultivation of plants and domestication of animals.20
8319556748Animal Domestication : _______Created a mutual dependance between humans and animals.21
8319632182Animals and Crops of the Fertile Crescent, (Southwest Asia)Cattle, Dogs, Donkey, Goat, Pig, Sheep - Barley, Lentils, Peas, Wheat, Flax.22
8319764702Fertile Crescent1st full Agricultural revolution. Large increase in settlements, (several thousands). Sun-dried Mud-bricks, shrine like buildings, elaborate burials, sickles, axes, awls.23
8319886369Fertile Crescent locationThe Fertile Crescent looks like a cap stretched over the top of the Arabian peninsula, (Iraq, Syria, Israel/Palestine, Jordan, Southern Turkey).24
8319992408proximity to animals =Results in Small Pox, Flu, Measles, Chicken Pox, Malaria, Tuberculosis, Rubies.25
8320025791Banpo Village in XianSeveral well organized Neolithic settlements discovered/found in the Yellow River Valley of Xian.26
8320120708Pastoralismraising and caring for livestock. Following herds, Nomadic lifestyle.27
8320818942"Title Societies"Societies where certain people had 'titles' and more control, NOT inherited.28

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