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10524174536IshiA man from one of the last hunger & gathers in California0
10524178022BanpoArchaeological site of an ancient village1
10524182770Secondary products RevolutionInnovations in Eurasian society and culture2
10524234137pastoral societiesNomadic group of people who travel with herds of domesticated animals3
10524234138CatalhüyükLarge settlement. One of the first cities4
10524234140The Original Affluent SocietyHunting and gather people where people worked fewer hours to meet needs. Meaning they had more leisure time5
10524234141ShamansPerson regarded as having access to the world of good and evil spirits6
10524234142Trance danceRitual where shamans dance and sing special medicine songs7
10524234143Paleothic settling downThe process of people moving toward permenant settlements at the end of the last ice age8
10524234144Venus figurinesPaleolithic statuette portraying a woman9
10524234145DreamtimeRecounting of the beginning of things through ancestral beings10
10524234146Clovis CulturePrehistoric paleo-Indian culture, named for distinct stone tools11
10524234147Austronesian migrationExpansion of a group of people (Austronesians from Asia to the pacific islands12
10524234148Gobekli TepeMassive limestone pillars carved in T shaped in a set of rings for a ceremony. Worlds oldest temple13
10524234149Fertile CrescentRegion containing moist and fertile land of Western Asia14
10524234150TeosinteMountain grass (ancestor of corn) in southern Mexico15
10524234151Diffusion migrationSpreading of something more widely (people)16
10524234152Bantu migrationMigrations of Bantu people17
10524234139CheifdomsForm hierarchical political organization society based on kinship with a formal leader18
10524324260Megafaunal extinctionThe Holocene extinction. occurred at the end of the last ice age glacial period. went extinct in the Americas and northern Eurasia.19

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