Human beings adapt to many different environments “w/o benefit of deliberate farming or animal husbandry” NOT agricultural revolution yet….
They mostly gathered foods like berries, nuts, roots and gain and scavenged dead animals (kinda like vultures…), and hunting live animals
Paleolithic: stone, not metal tools—stone age Cultural and learned skills of the Paleolithic age- define history
Out of Africa to the Ends of the Earth: First Migrations
Human life started in Africa
Culture: learned or invented ways of living, became more important than biology in shaping behavior
Humans started inhabiting life in new places- lead to technological innovation
Stone blades, sharp points on sticks, tools from bones and grindstones
Moving from scavenging dead animals hunting live animals
Hunter gatherer life meant following your food supply which means nomadic life
100k to 60k years ago, migration out of Africa happens
Eurasia, Australia, Americas were main places inhabited
Ice Age creates ice bridges which facilitated migration
Into Eurasia
From Africa middle east west into Europe (southern france, northern spain) or east into asia
Ice age pushed people southwawrd into warmer areas.
Altered their hunting habits and hunted reindeer and horses
Technologies: spear thrower, bow and arrow, mainly stone tools Cave paintings were considered having a history/record of their world more east: bone needles, multilayerd clothing, weaving, nets, storage pits, baskets, and pottery—to combat the ice age cold
Into Australia
the use of boats was the main huge innovation of Australian migrators there were over 250 languages, they gathered bulbs, tuber, roots, seeds, and cereal grasses.
They hunted large and small animals and birds, fish, and marine life
DREAMTIME: a complex outlook on the world
Dreamtime: recounted the beginning of world, how things happened, nature stuff (religion ish)
Exchanged stones, pigments,