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2806982692Austronesian migrationsThe last phase of the great human migration that established human presence in every habitable region on Earth0
2806982693AustronesianPeople who settled in the Pacific Islands ans Madagascarin a series of seabourne migrations1
2806982694Brotherhood of the TomolA prestigious craft guild that monopolized the building and ownership of large oceangoing canoes or tomols among the Chumash people2
2806982695Chumash culturePaleolithic culture of southern California that syrvived until the modern era3
2806982696Clovis cultureThe earliest widespread and distinctive culture of North America. Named from the Clovis point, a projectile point.4
2806982697DreamtimeA complex worldview of Australia's Aboriginal people that held that current humans live in a vibration or echo of ancestoral happenings.5
2806982698Flores manRecently discover hominid species of Indonesia6
2806982699Gathering and hunting peoplePeople who lived by collecting food rather than producing it.7
2806982700Great goddessA believed dominant deity of the Paleolithic era8
2806982701HadzaPeople of northern Tanzania, almost last surviving Paleolithic society.9
2806982702Human revolutionUsed to describe the transition of humans from acting out of biological imperative to dependance on learned or invented ways10
2806982703Ice AgeAny number of cold periods in the Earth's history, last Ice Age about 20,000 year ago11
2806982704Insulting the meatA San cultural practice meant to deflate pride that involved negative comments about the meat brought in by a hunter.12
2807069644Jomon cultureA settled Paleolithic culture of prehistoric Japan, characterized by seaside villages and creation of early pottery13
2807488463Megafunal extinctionDying out of a number of large animal species and several species of horses and camels.14
2807488464NeanderthalsA European variant of Homo sapiens that died out about 25,000 years ago15
2807488465N/umAmong the San, a spiritual potency that becomes activated during curing dances and protects humans from the malevolent forces of gods and ancestral spirits.16
2807488466The original affluen societyCoined by scholar Marshall Sahlins in 1972, describing Paleolithic societies wanted or needed so little17
2807488467Paleolithic"Stone Age" descirbes early Homo Sapeins societies before the development of agriculture18
2807488468Paleolithic rock artDescribe the hundreds of paintings discovered in Spain and France, dating about 20,000 gears ago.19
2807488469Paleolithic "settling down"Some settlements settled down after the Ice Age. Described as increase in food and goods and growing inequalities in society.20
2807488470San or Ju/'hoansiPaleolithic people still living on the northern fringe of the Kalahari desert.21
2807488471ShamanA person who is believed to have the ability to act as a bridge between living humans and supernatural forces. By traces induced by psychoactive drugs.22
2807488472Trance danceIn San culture, a nightlong ritual held to activate a human being's inner spiritual potency to counteract the evil influences of gods and ancestors23
2807488473Venus figuresPaleolithic carvings of the female form24

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