2806982692 | Austronesian migrations | The last phase of the great human migration that established human presence in every habitable region on Earth | 0 | |
2806982693 | Austronesian | People who settled in the Pacific Islands ans Madagascarin a series of seabourne migrations | 1 | |
2806982694 | Brotherhood of the Tomol | A prestigious craft guild that monopolized the building and ownership of large oceangoing canoes or tomols among the Chumash people | 2 | |
2806982695 | Chumash culture | Paleolithic culture of southern California that syrvived until the modern era | 3 | |
2806982696 | Clovis culture | The earliest widespread and distinctive culture of North America. Named from the Clovis point, a projectile point. | 4 | |
2806982697 | Dreamtime | A complex worldview of Australia's Aboriginal people that held that current humans live in a vibration or echo of ancestoral happenings. | 5 | |
2806982698 | Flores man | Recently discover hominid species of Indonesia | 6 | |
2806982699 | Gathering and hunting people | People who lived by collecting food rather than producing it. | 7 | |
2806982700 | Great goddess | A believed dominant deity of the Paleolithic era | 8 | |
2806982701 | Hadza | People of northern Tanzania, almost last surviving Paleolithic society. | 9 | |
2806982702 | Human revolution | Used to describe the transition of humans from acting out of biological imperative to dependance on learned or invented ways | 10 | |
2806982703 | Ice Age | Any number of cold periods in the Earth's history, last Ice Age about 20,000 year ago | 11 | |
2806982704 | Insulting the meat | A San cultural practice meant to deflate pride that involved negative comments about the meat brought in by a hunter. | 12 | |
2807069644 | Jomon culture | A settled Paleolithic culture of prehistoric Japan, characterized by seaside villages and creation of early pottery | 13 | |
2807488463 | Megafunal extinction | Dying out of a number of large animal species and several species of horses and camels. | 14 | |
2807488464 | Neanderthals | A European variant of Homo sapiens that died out about 25,000 years ago | 15 | |
2807488465 | N/um | Among the San, a spiritual potency that becomes activated during curing dances and protects humans from the malevolent forces of gods and ancestral spirits. | 16 | |
2807488466 | The original affluen society | Coined by scholar Marshall Sahlins in 1972, describing Paleolithic societies wanted or needed so little | 17 | |
2807488467 | Paleolithic | "Stone Age" descirbes early Homo Sapeins societies before the development of agriculture | 18 | |
2807488468 | Paleolithic rock art | Describe the hundreds of paintings discovered in Spain and France, dating about 20,000 gears ago. | 19 | |
2807488469 | Paleolithic "settling down" | Some settlements settled down after the Ice Age. Described as increase in food and goods and growing inequalities in society. | 20 | |
2807488470 | San or Ju/'hoansi | Paleolithic people still living on the northern fringe of the Kalahari desert. | 21 | |
2807488471 | Shaman | A 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 | |
2807488472 | Trance dance | In San culture, a nightlong ritual held to activate a human being's inner spiritual potency to counteract the evil influences of gods and ancestors | 23 | |
2807488473 | Venus figures | Paleolithic carvings of the female form | 24 |
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