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Describe a prehistoric mans life.
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Nomadic, Hunter-gatherers, Ate a lot of meat
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How do historians know about them?
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From cave-paintings, remains, studying tribes/ people who were isolated from society who lived like them e.g. Australian aborigines
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How did they die?
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Child birth, infections, warfare, famine
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What natural treatments did they use?
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Women used herbs and remedies that were passed down e.g. clay on broken bones, headache was herbs and honey, moss
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What supernatural treatments did they use?
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Medicine Men did chants and wore necklaces with charms, trephining, find pointing stick (someone had used to remove your spirit) and throw in water to set it free
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Did trephining work?
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Sometimes they survived as there have been skulls found with regrowth, No - they usually died as they would hit the brain, blood loss or pain. It wouldn't have helped relieve the pain.
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What did they believe to be the causes of illness?
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Evil spirits entering your body, your own spirit leaving your body
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