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| 164024174 | Venus Figurines | Paleolithic carvings of the female form, often with exaggerated breasts, buttocks, hips, and stomachs, which may have had religious significance | 0 | |
| 164024175 | Shaman | In many early societies, a person believed to have the ability to act as a leasion between living humans and supernatural forces, often by means of trances induced by psychoactive drugs | 1 | |
| 164024176 | Trance Dance | In San culture, a nightlong ritual held to activate a human being's innter 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 Jo/'hoansi are a surviving remnant | 2 | |
| 164024177 | San [Jo/'hoansi] | A Paleolithic people still living on he northern fringe of the Kalahari desert in southern Africa | 3 | |
| 164024178 | Paleolithic "Settling Down" | The process by which some Paleolithic peoples moved toward permanent settlement in the wake of the last Ice Age. Settlement was marked by increasing storage of food and accumulation of goods, as well as growing inequalities in society | 4 | |
| 164024179 | Paleolithic Rock Art | The hundreds of Paleolithic painting discovered in Spain and France, dating to about 20,000 years ago; these paintings depict a range of animals, although human figures and abstract designs are also found. | 5 | |
| 164024180 | Paleolithic | "Old Stone Age"; term used to describe early Homo sapien societies in the period before the development of agriculture | 6 | |
| 164024181 | "The Original Affluent Society" | term coined by the scholar Marshall Sahlins in 1972 to describe Paleolithic societies, which he regarded as affluent not because they had so much but because they wanted/needed so little | 7 | |
| 164024182 | N/um | Among the San, a spiritual potency that becomes activated during "curing dances" and protects humans from the malevolent foces of gods or ancestral spirits | 8 | |
| 164024183 | Neanderthals | Homo sapiens neanderthalensis, a European varient of Homo sapiens that died out about 25,000 years ago | 9 | |
| 164024184 | Megafaunal Extinction | The dying-out of a number of large animal species, including the mammoth and several species of horses and camels; occured 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 of climate of the era | 10 | |
| 164024185 | Jomon Culture | A settled Paleolithic culture of prehistoric Japan, characterized by seaside villages and the creation of some of the world's earlies pottery | 11 | |
| 164024186 | "Insulting The Meat" | A San cultural practice meant to deflate pride that involved negative comments about the meat in expectation that the successful hunter would disparage his kill | 12 | |
| 164024187 | Ice Age | Any of a number of cold periods in earth's history; the last one was, at its peak, around 20,000 year ago | 13 | |
| 164024188 | "Human Revolution" | The term used to describe the transition of humans from acting out of biological imperative to dependence on learned or invented ways of living [culture]. | 14 | |
| 164024189 | Hadza | A people of northern Tanzania, almost the last surviving Paleolithic society | 15 | |
| 164024190 | Great Goddess | According to one theory, a dominant deity of the Paleolithic era | 16 | |
| 164024191 | "Gathering and Hunting Peoples" | As the name suggests, people who live by collecting food rather than producing it. | 17 | |
| 164024192 | Flores Man | A recently discovered hominid species of Indonesia | 18 | |
| 164024193 | Dreamtime | A complex worldview of Australia's Aboriginal peopel that held that current humans live in an echo of ancestral happenings | 19 | |
| 164024194 | Clovis Culture | The earlies widespread and distinctive culture of North America; named from the Clovis point, a particular kind of projectile point | 20 | |
| 164024195 | Chumash Culture | Paleolithic culture of southern California that survived until the modern era | 21 | |
| 164024196 | Brotherhood of the Tomol | A prestigious craft guild that monopolized the builtig and ownership of the large, oceangoing canoes [tomols] among the Chumash people | 22 | |
| 164024197 | Austronesian Migrations | The last phase of the great human migration that established a human presence in every habitable region of the earth. Austronesian-speaking people settled the Pacific island and Madagascar in a series of seaborne migrations that began around 3,500 years ago | 23 |
