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220298775C.e.common era0
220298776B.c.e.before common era1
220298777Evolutiona process in which something passes by degrees to a different stage (especially a more advanced or mature stage)2
220298778Paleolithic agesecond part of the Stone Age beginning about 750,00 to 500,000 years BC and lasting until the end of the last ice age about 8,500 years BC3
220298779Neolithic agelatest part of the Stone Age beginning about 10,000 BC in the middle east (but later elsewhere)4
220298780Venus figurinessmall Paleolithic statues of women with exaggerated sexual features5
220298781Agricultural revolutionThe time when human beings first domesticated plants and animals and no longer relied entirely on hunting and gathering6
220298782Slash-and-burn agricultureAnother name for shifring cultivation, so named because fields are cleared by slashing the vegetation and burning the debris.7
220298783Shanidar caveIraq- individual found with amputated arm, arthritis, & partially blind (Neandertal) Shows care for one another?8
220298784Jomon societyPaleolithic settlement in central Japan.9
220298785Natufian societyeastern Mediterrean society (Israel and Lebandon); one of the earliest10
220298786Chinook societyA third society that settled permanently. They settled in the Pacific Northwest. They had sources of berries, acorns, and salmon.11
220298787Australopithecusthe earliest humanlike creature that flourished in eastern and southern Africa 3 to 4 million years ago12
220298788Homo erectusextinct species of primitive hominid with upright stature but small brain13
220298789Homo sapiensthe only surviving hominid14
220298790Neandertalextinct robust human of Middle Paleolithic in Europe and western Asia15
220298791Cro-magnonearly groups of homo sapiens16
220298792Patriarchal societymale-dominated society17

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