1.2: Humans Try to Control Nature
1. How did Cro Magnon’s new tools make survival easier?
2. What factors played a role in the origins of agriculture?
3. What were the first crops grown in the Americas?
Nomads: People who moved from place to place foraging, searching for new food sources
Hunter-gatherers: Nomadic groups whose food supply depends on hunting and collecting plants
Neolithic Revolution: Agricultural revolution
Slash & Burn Farming: Cutting trees & grasses and burning them to clear a field
Domestication: Taming of animals
I – Early Advances in Technology & Art
a) Tools Needed to Survive
People of OSA were nomads; Cro-Magnons were hunter gatherers
Technological revolution: Stone, bone, & wood used to create tools
b) Artistic Expression in the Paleolithic Age
Tools explain how survival needs are met
Best known cave paintings were in France & Spain; paint = mud, charcoal & animal blood
Africa: engraved pictures on rocks & Australia: Paintings on rocks
II – The Beginnings of Agriculture
Men did hunting women gather fruits & berries etc; women may have spread seeds near campsite & returned next season & found crops; discovery = Neolithic revolution
Neolithic revolution: shift from food gathering > food producing
a) Causes of the Agricultural Revolution
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1.2: Humans Try to Control Nature
1. How did Cro Magnon’s new tools make survival easier?
2. What factors played a role in the origins of agriculture?
3. What were the first crops grown in the Americas?
Nomads: People who moved from place to place foraging, searching for new food sources
Hunter-gatherers: Nomadic groups whose food supply depends on hunting and collecting plants
Neolithic Revolution: Agricultural revolution
Slash & Burn Farming: Cutting trees & grasses and burning them