Ancient Prehistory

Question 1

What is animism?

Answer 1

Life and body functions determined by spirits

Question 2

What did they know about disease?

Answer 2

Next to nothing

Question 3

What are shamans?

Answer 3

A kind of prehistoric priest

Question 4

How was medical knowledge built up?

Answer 4

Orally

Question 5

An example of a treatment based on plants?

Answer 5

Willow Bark for an antiseptic

Question 6

What was used for broken bones?

Answer 6

Clay

Question 7

What was trephining?

Answer 7

Where a portion of the skull was cut away

Question 8

What is an important source of info for prehistory?

Answer 8

Aborigines

Question 9

What did they believe caused migraines?

Answer 9

Spirits entering body