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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
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
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shaman
• Intermediaries• human world• Spirit world