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| 10509235934 | Venus Figurines | Paleolithic carvings of the female form, often with exaggerated breasts, buttocks, hips, and stomachs, which may have had religious significance |  | 0 |
| 10515641963 | Dreamtime | The native Australian Aborigines' belief about how they came to be |  | 1 |
| 10516369319 | Clovis Culture | a prehistoric Native American culture that first appears in the archaeological record of North America around 13,000 years ago, at the end of the last ice age. The culture is named for artifacts found near Clovis, New Mexico, where the first evidence of this tool complex was excavated in 1932. |  | 2 |
| 10523867539 | 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 climate of the era. |  | 3 |
| 10523869004 | Austronesian migration | The last phase of the great human migration that established a human presence in every habitable region of the earth. |  | 4 |
| 10523870259 | "The original affluent society" | A theory postulating that hunter-gatherers were the original affluent society. |  | 5 |
| 10523870260 | Shamans | Spiritually adept men and women who communicated with the unseen world |  | 6 |
| 10524386817 | 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 |
| 10524387706 | 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 as growing inequalities in society. |  | 8 |
| 10524388582 | Gobekli Tepe | A ceremonial site found in Turkey made by hunting and gathering people around 12,000 years ago. |  | 9 |
| 10524389240 | Fertile Crescent | a crescent-shaped region where agriculture and early human civilizations like the Sumer and Ancient Egypt flourished due to inundations from the surrounding Nile, Euphrates, and Tigris rivers. |  | 10 |
| 10524391825 | Teosinte | A type of wild maize that is the ancestor of corn. First domesticated in southern Mexico by 4000 to 3000 B.C.E. |  | 11 |
| 10531641950 | Diffusion | The process of spread of a feature or trend from one place to another over time | 12 | |
| 10531645275 | Bantu Migration | the movement of the bantu peoples southward throghout africa, spreading their language and culture, from around 500 b.c. to around A.D 1000 |  | 13 |
| 10531646099 | 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 nineteenth century by the intrusion of farming, herding, and more "civilized" societies. |  | 14 |
| 10531648273 | Banpo | A Chinese archeological site where the remains of a significant Neolithic village have been found |  | 15 |
| 10531650045 | "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 |
| 10531651698 | pastoral societies | -societies based around the domestication of animals instead of agriculture -lived in clans/tribes -typically nomadic |  | 17 |
| 10531652465 | Catal Huyuk | One of first true cities in history, created in the Neolithic Era in 6500 to 5500 BC, from which were created agriculture, trading, temples, housing, and religions |  | 18 |
| 10531654748 | Cheifdoms | a society with social ranking in which political interrogation is achieved through an office of centralized leadership called the chief. |  | 19 |
