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