What’s the Significance?

Venus figurines, 14; 23

Dreamtime, 15

Clovis culture, 18

megafaunal extinction, 18

Austronesian migrations, 19

“the original affluent society,” 22

shamans, 23

trance dance, 23

Paleolithic settling down, 24

Göbekli Tepe, 25

Fertile Crescent, 28; 32

teosinte, 34

diffusion, 36

Bantu migration, 37

Ishi, 38

Banpo, 40

“secondary products revolution,” 41

pastoral societies, 41

Çatalhüyük, 43

chiefdoms, 44