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venus figurines |
paleolithic carvings of the female form, often with exaggerated breast’s, buttocks, hips, and stomachs, which may have had religious significance |
female figures with exaggerated body parts |
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dreamtime |
a complex worldview of australia’s aboriginal people that held that current humans live in an echo of ancestral happenings |
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Clovis Culture |
the earliest widespread and distinctive culture of north america; named from the clovis point, a particular kind of projectile point |
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megafaunal extinction |
the dying out of a Number of large animal species, including the mammoth and several species of horses and camels; occurred around 11,000 to 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 the climate of the era |
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Austronesian migration |
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 Seaborn migrations that began around 3500 years ago |
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shamans |
in many early societies, a person believe to have the ability to act as a lesion between living humans and supernatural forces, often by means of transit induced by psychoactive drugs |
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Gövekli Tepe |
oldest religious structure. Made by hunter gatherer’s. Indicates that religion came before organization of labor, settlement and agriculture |
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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 |
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teosinte |
a wild grass found in the Highlands with Mexico, is the wild ancestor of Maize |
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diffusion |
is the process by which a characteristic spreads |
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Bantu Migrations |
(1500 B.C.E. to 500 C.E.) 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 in population growth. The changes instigated by the Bantu migration increase the vitality of sub-Saharan Africa |
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