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| 10712835644 | Venus figurines | Paleolithic carvings of the female form, often with exaggerated breasts, buttocks, hips, and stomachs, which may have had religious significance definition: figures of women with enhanced sexual characteristics, thought to promote fertility significance: showed that early humans were capable of religion, deep thought, self-reflection | 0 | |
| 10712838401 | Dreamtime | A complex worldview of Australia's Aboriginal people that held that current humans live in a vibration or echo of ancestral happenings. | 1 | |
| 10712838402 | Clovis Culture | The earliest widespread and distinctive culture of North America; named from the Clovis point, a particular kind of projectile point. | 2 | |
| 10712844510 | 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 | |
| 10712848460 | Austronesian migrations | The last phase of the great human migration that established a human presence in every habitable region of the earth. These people settled the Pacific Islands & Madagascar in a series of seaborne migrations that began around 3500 years ago. definition: people who began to explore and settle islands of the Pacific Ocean basin significance: led to the transfer of technologies from the mainland to smaller islands (like agriculture, etc) | 4 | |
| 10712858287 | "the original affluent society" | Original affluent society. The "original affluent society" is a theory postulating that hunter-gatherers were the original affluent society. This theory was first articulated by Marshall Sahlins at a symposium entitled "Man the Hunter" in 1966. | 5 | |
| 10712860752 | Shamans | Religious specialists who possessed supernatural powers, communicated with the gods and nature spirits, invoked divine aid on behalf of their communities, and informed their companions of their gods' will, often by means of trances induced by psychoactive drugs | 6 | |
| 10712863451 | 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 | |
| 10712866869 | Paleolithic settling down | At the end of the last Ice Age, human beings began to form settled villages as they discovered agriculture. This was a major change away from a way of life, nomadic hunting and gathering, that had been in place for most of human prehistory. | 8 | |
| 10712866870 | Gobekli Tepe | Archaeological site in present day Turkey, advanced in terms of tools and architecture, one of the oldest examples of organized civilization and archeology. 10,000 BC oldest religious structure. made by hunter gathers. Indicates that religion came before organization of labor, settlement and agriculture | 9 | |
| 10712871592 | Fertile Crescent | A geographical area of fertile land in the Middle East stretching in a broad semicircle from the Nile to the Tigris and Euphrates | 10 | |
| 10712871593 | Teosinte | a wild grass found in the highlands of Mexico, is the wild ancestor of maize (corn) | 11 | |
| 10712876562 | Diffusion | The process by which molecules move from an area of higher concentration to an area of lower concentration The process of spreading a feature or trend from one place to another over time | 12 | |
| 10712878351 | Bantu Migration | (1500BCE to 500CE) As the Bantu people migrated, they spread the Bantu family of languages and culture. The Bantu also spread the use of iron, which improved farming techniques and agricultural efficiency, the greater food supply sparked economic development and population growth. The changes instigated by the Bantu migration increased the vitality of sub-Saharan Africa. | 13 | |
| 10712878352 | Ishi | The last surviving member of a gathering and hunting group known as the Yali who lived in northern California. His people were driven into extinction during the second half of the nineteenth century by the intrusion of farming and herding "civilized" societies. | 14 | |
| 10712884992 | Banpo | A Chinese archaeological site, where the remains of a significant Neolithic village have been found. | 15 | |
| 10712888479 | "secondary products revolution" | A term used to describe the series of technological changes that began c.a. 4000 B.C.E., as people began to develop new uses for their domesticated animals, exploiting a revolutionary new source of power. Examples: milk, transportation, wool, hunting help, glue, muscle power, eggs, blood, feathers, bones, ivory, manure/fertilizer, and hides/fur. | 16 | |
| 10712890410 | pastoral societies | Based on the domestication of animals and use their products as main source of food. Groups move where there is foods but they are more settlers than nomads. Independent and warlike. | 17 | |
| 10712893520 | Catalhuyuk | one of the world's first villages, established in modern-day Turkey around 7000 B.C. Good example of agricultural village society. Social structure, buried dead, many people, well built houses, specialization. | 18 | |
| 10712893521 | Chiefdoms | A society that is led by a ruler of decent, but seldom used force to lead their people. They relied on generosity, charisma, and leadership to rule. | 19 |
