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Palaeolithic-key points • Coincides with Ice Age • Hunter gatherers • Caves, isolated finds • Little permanent settlement • Stone technology-Increasing complexity • Bow and arrow, bola, nets, domestication of dogs • Artwork, cave art • Evidence of Religion and ritual

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Palaeolithic-key points• Coincides with Ice Age• Hunter gatherers• Caves, isolated finds• Little permanent settlement• Stone technology-Increasing complexity• Bow and arrow, bola, nets, domestication of

dogs• Artwork, cave art• Evidence of Religion and ritual

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Social Organisation• Small scale bands• Nomadic• Egalitarian?• Parallels with modern communities?• Primitive communism-everything shared,

everyone possesses similar skills• Evidence of ritual• Shamans and shamanistic practice

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• Intermediaries• human world• Spirit world