Over 100,000 years ago on the African plains, this shaman is retiring to her private abode where she will commune with the spirits. The period of human prehistory she represents is known to archaeologists as the Middle Stone Age (280-50,000 years ago), and it covers the period when the species of modern humans (Homo sapiens) and their culture developed in Africa prior to dispersing throughout the world. Think of it as the time our species grew up within its African cradle.