Chapter 1

Question 1

Paleolithic Art

Answer 1

The rock art of gathering and hunting peoples found in Africa, Europe, Australia, and elsewhere

Question 2

Hazda

Answer 2

People of northern Tanzania, who’s lives (in 1997) resemble humankind until 10,000-12,000 years ago. (hunted game, collected honey, dug roots, gather fruits and berries)

Question 3

Paleolithic

Answer 3

Old Stone Age- era of hunter and gatherers.

Question 4

Neolithic

Answer 4

New Stone Age- era in which a few societies in Eurasia, Africa and Americas started to practice the deliberate cultivation of plants and domestication of animals.

Question 5

Neolithic era of humans

Answer 5

longest phase of human history

Question 6

Why Paleolithic and Neolithic eras are important

Answer 6

These eras mark the transition to using agriculture, which were learned changes rather than biological evolution.

Question 7

Venus figurines

Answer 7

Paleolithic carvings of the female form,often with exaggerated breasts, hips, and stomachs which may have held religious significance.

Question 8

trance dance

Answer 8

In San culture, a nightlong ritual to activate a human being’s inner 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 Ju/’hoansi are a surviving remnant.

Question 9

teosinte

Answer 9

the wild ancestor of maize

Question 10

stateless societies

Answer 10

Village-based agricultural societies, usually organized by kinship groups, that functioned without a formal government apparatus.

Question 11

shaman

Answer 11

In many early societies, a person believed to have the ability to act as a bridge between living humans and supernatural forces, often by means of trances induced by psychoactive drugs.