211037709 | Venus figurines | small Paleolithic statues of women with exaggerated sexual features | 0 | |
211037710 | Agricultural revolution | The time when human beings first domesticated plants and animals and no longer relied entirely on hunting and gathering | 1 | |
211037711 | Slash and burn agriculture | Another name for shifring cultivation, so named because fields are cleared by slashing the vegetation and burning the debris. | 2 | |
211037712 | Shanidar cave | cave located in older area of Northeastern Iraq with evidence of medicinal activity in it ~ 30,000 BCE | 3 | |
211037713 | Jomon society | Period of life in japan. It transitioned over many years from nomadic "hunters and gatherers" to settlements and farmers. | 4 | |
211037714 | Natufian society | One society that took permanent settlement during the Paleolithic times. Few others settled permanently during this time. The Natufians settled near modern Israel and Jordan. They settled permanently because of their large food source (wild buckwheat and fishing). | 5 | |
211037715 | Chinook society | A third society that settled permanently. They settled in the Pacific Northwest. They had sources of berries, acorns, and salmon. | 6 | |
211037716 | Australopithecus | the earliest humanlike creature that flourished in eastern and southern Africa 3 to 4 million years ago | 7 | |
211037717 | Homo erectus | extinct species of primitive hominid with upright stature but small brain | 8 | |
211037718 | Homo sapien | human being | 9 | |
211037719 | Neandertal | extinct robust human of Middle Paleolithic in Europe and western Asia | 10 | |
211037720 | Cro-magnon | early groups of homo sapiens | 11 | |
211037721 | Patriarchal society | male-dominated society | 12 |
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