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| 2891098312 | hundreds of prehistoric statuettes of women portrayed with similar physical attributes. These figurines were carved from soft stone (such as steatite, calcite or limestone), bone or ivory, or formed with clay and fired. | Venus figurines | 0 | |
| 2891101619 | the "golden age" when the first ancestors were created. | Dreamtime | 1 | |
| 2891105629 | a prehistoric Paleo-Indian culture, named after distinct stone tools found at sites near Clovis, New Mexico, in the 1920s and 1930s. | Clovis culture | 2 | |
| 2891114234 | The extinction of large animals | Magefaunal extinction | 3 | |
| 2891130439 | The last phase of the great human migration that established a human presence in every habitable region on the earth. Austronesian-speaking people settled the Pacific islands and Madagascar in a series of seaborne migrations that began around 3500 years ago. | Austronesia migration | 4 | |
| 2891138572 | : term used by Marshall Sahlins in 1972 to describe the Paleolithic era, not because they had so much, but because they wanted or needed so little. | The original affluent societies | 5 | |
| 2891144635 | In many early societies a person believed to have the ability to act as a bridge between living humans and supernatural forces, often by means of trances induced by psychoactive drugs. | Shaman | 6 | |
| 2891146969 | In San culture, a night long ritual held to activate a human being's inner spiritual potential (n/um) to counteract the evil influences of gods and ancestors. | Trance dance | 7 | |
| 2891151182 | The process by which some Paleolithic peoples moved toward permanent settlement in the wake of the last Ice Age. Settlement was marked by increase in storage of food and accumulation of goods as well as growing inequality in society. | Paleolithic settling down | 8 | |
| 2891156930 | an archaeological site at the top of a mountain ridge in the Southeastern Anatolia Region of Turkey, approximately 12 km northeast of the city of Şanlıurfa | Gobekli tepe | 9 | |
| 2891164958 | an archaeological site at the top of a mountain ridge in the Southeastern Anatolia Region of Turkey, approximately 12 km northeast of the city of Şanlıurfa | Fertile crescent | 10 | |
| 2891170290 | plants are taller and broader-leaved than most grasses (Figure). Their general growth form is similar to that of maize, although they have much longer lateral branches. | Teosinte | 11 | |
| 2891175243 | The transition of elements or features of one culture to another | Diffuion | 12 | |
| 2891182279 | a postulated millennia-long series of migrations of speakers of the original proto-Bantu language group.[1][2] The primary evidence for this expansion has been linguistic, namely that the languages spoken in Sub-Equatorial Africa are remarkably similar to each other. Attempts to trace the exact route of the expansion, to correlate it with archaeological evidence and genetic evidence, have not been conclusive; thus many aspects of the expansion remain in doubt or are highly contested.[3] | Bantu migration | 13 | |
| 2891187562 | the last member of the Yahi, a group of the Yana of the U.S. state of California. Widely acclaimed in his time as the "last wild Indian" in America, Ishi lived most of his life completely outside modern culture. | Ishi | 14 | |
| 2891191711 | an archaeological site discovered in 1953 and located in the Yellow River Valley just east of Xi'an, China. It contains the remains of several well organized Neolithic settlements carbon dated to 5600-6700 years ago.[ | Banpo | 15 | |
| 2891197622 | stressed that the 'primary' pattern of exploiting domesticated animals for meat in the Early Neolithic was followed by a more diversified exploitation of secondary applications and products such as milk, wool, textiles, ... | Secondary products revolution | 16 | |
| 2891201584 | a social group of pastoralists, whose way of life is based on pastoralism, and is typically nomadic. Daily life is centered upon the tending of herds or flocks. | Pastoral societies | 17 | |
| 2891205512 | a very large Neolithic and Chalcolithic proto‑city settlement in southern Anatolia, which existed from approximately 7500 BC to 5700 BC, and flourished around 7000 BC. It is the largest and best-preserved Neolithic site found to date. | Catalhuyuk | 18 | |
| 2891208855 | a form of hierarchical political organization in non-industrial societies usually based on kinship, and in which formal leadership is monopolized by the legitimate senior members of select families or 'houses'. | Cheifdoms | 19 |
