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The Hunter-Gatherer Homogenous worldview
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Hunter-gatherer Caves
This page provides examples which demonstrate the homogenous worldview that the hunter-gatherers universally shared despite the fact that these people were separated by thousands of miles and therefore could not have influenced one another in their development for worldview. The worldview was homogenous because their technology and economy was the same. This is further underscored by the fact that the geographic region they were occupying also featured differences as well. This also amplifies that the core driver for human history has always been technology.
The caves were once the places where humans lived. However once the hunter-gatherers entered the Transmission Period, they found caves where humans did not live in but had carved and painted images on the walls and ceilings. They know this as there were no animal remains found in these caves and therefore were places for the expression of hunter-gatherer worldview.
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Hunter-gatherer Necklaces
Humans began to decorate the deceased with necklaces made from shells and other materials. With the tools they had, punching holes in any material would have taken these people a very long time. Tremendous care was taken in the creation of the burial necklaces. Humans were at this point clearly aware of their own mortality and personal loss.
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Hunter-gatherer Venus figurines
The miracle of birth still astounds us today. The process of giving birth must have been held in much higher regard to the hunter-gatherers as their mortality rates were likely very high compared with agricultural and industrial eras infant mortality rates. The fact that spent the time to carve pregnant figurines, called Venus figurines, is unquestionably an expression in worldview. Again this happened around the world and was not isolated to a single region.
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Hunter-gatherer Vortex Symbols
The vortex symbol is more complicated to explain but is also found worldwide. Lewis-Williams and Pearce studied interviews of the 400 remaining hunter-gatherer tribes to understand what this ubiquitous symbol was. The remaining hunter-gatherer tribes have a shaman in over 90% of their tribes. The shamans explained the symbol as the moment they went into altered state where they would become a bird or other animal required for a solution to the tribe's problem which had originally caused them to enter into this state in search of the solution with the unseen forces.
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Hunter-gatherer universal experience in altered states
The archeologists researched within laboratories and tested whether this experience could be replicated, which it was. From Lewis-Williams/Pearce book is a drawing for the stages of a deepening trance which progresses into a full blown hallucination where the person sees themselves as having the inhuman features which were common descriptions from the shamans for altered state experiences.
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