Prehistoric Medicine – What do you know



|Prehistoric Medicine – What do you know? |

|1. What was trephinning? |2. What does ‘prehistory’ actually mean? |

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|An aboriginal art form |Before written history |

|A prehistoric cooking utensil |After the development of writing |

|A method of surgery thought to release spirits |Before human beings |

|A chant performed by a medicine man |A very long time ago |

|3. Roughly, what are the dates of prehistoric times? |4. Which Australian tribal people up until recently practiced a "prehistoric|

| |way of life"? |

|1500 - 1700 A.D | |

|1939 - 1945 A.D. |Queenslanders |

|400 B.C. - 400 A.D. |the Maoris |

|10,000 B.C -3,000 B.C. |the aboriginies |

|5. What word describes people who do not live in settled communities? |6. How can we tell people lived on after trephinning? |

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|roamers |archaelogical evidence shows bone growth over the initial hole |

|wanderers |aboriginies have told us |

|madnos |there are written records |

|nomads | |

|7. Who in the tribe had closest contact with the spirit world and used |8. What was a clay or mud caste used to heal? |

|chants and charms for healing purposes? | |

| |influenza |

|the village elders |a headache caused by trephinning |

|The Michelin man |a broken limb |

|The Medicine Man | |

|9. Which commonly used drug for malaria was first used by prehistoric | |

|peoples? | |

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|aspirin | |

|quinine | |

|codeine | |

|morphine | |

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