Prehistory

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What is prehistory?
time before the records
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name 3 ways we can know what prehistory was like
Archaeology, aborigines & old skeltons
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what were prayers and chants used for?
to warn of bad spirits & charms were pretection
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what is trephening and how do we know it worked?
drilling a hole into the skull to release 'evil spirits' from the mind for headaches, we know it worked because skulls have had bone grown back over
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what was a medicine man?
trained to communicate with the gods and spirtis
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name 3 supernatural explanations of illness
evil spirits in the body, curses placed, people losing their own spirit
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3 supernatural treatments
chanting/dancing, charms, herbal remmedirdines
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natural treatment for illness that were learnt through trial & error
injuries for hunting or fighting treated by using mud as a cast.
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