Life in Neolithic Communities Researchers reexamine the assumption that food producers were better off than foragers Modern studies show that food procedures work harder and longer than food gatherers Evidence shows that even though farmers had more food than gatherers it was also less nutritious Skeletal remains show that Neolithic farmers were shorter‚ more likely to early form contagious diseases than food gatherers The benefit from food producers was the dependable supply of food that
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The Beginnings of Civilization PREHISTORY • Absence of written records • Scientists rely on unwritten evidence Archaeologists-study places where prehistoric people lived Artifacts-objects shaped by human beings Fossils-human or animal bones and teeth Fossilized traces left in rocks by plants and animals Geologists- analyze fossils and the rocks in which they are found Chemists and Physicists-determines the age of the artifacts and other remains of the past THE SEARCH FOR KNOWLEDGE
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End of last ice age 14‚000 BCE First potter’s wheel 6‚000 BCE Agricultural development reaches West Africa 10‚000-5‚000 BCE Era of Neolithic Revolution 7‚000 BCE Transition to use of bronze 4‚000 BCE Rise of Catal Huyuk 2‚000 BCE Hunting and gathering – Means of obtaining subsistence by human species prior to the adaptation of sedentary agriculture; normally typical of band social organization. Neolithic Age – The New Stone Age between 8000 and 5000 BCE; period in which adaptation
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Matriarchy and Patriarchy Prepared by Paul A. MacAry and Greg D. Petersen Patriarchy is simply "rule of the father‚" matriarchy the "rule of the mother." In a true patriarchal or matriarchal society‚ this applies only to the family or an extended family or tribe. Unfortunately‚ there is much this ambiguity and miss-use of the two words. Perhaps the best way to address these two is to look specifically into the animal kingdom. We have already compared the Common and Bonobo Chimpanzees‚ and both
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and gathering‚ the villages where the peoples of Mesopotamia lived as time went on evolved. They grew to be cities and later on to be city- states. Villages emerged and appeared around 8000 B.C.E . An example of an early village would be Çatal Hüyük. Çatal Hüyük was one of the best known neolithic settlements. Even in the early days‚ cities differed from Neolithic villages and towns in two principal ways‚ cities were larger and more complex than Neolithic villages and towns. After villages were around
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A.P. World History Guided Reading 1 "The Origins of Agriculture to the First River-Valley Civilizations” TERMS: Culture - Socially transmitted patterns of action and expression Foragers - Hunting and food gathering people Animal domestication - The killing of animals for food Pastorialism - Way of life dependent on large herds of grazing livestock Matrilineal - Kinship with mother Patrilineal - Kinship with father Lineages - the holding of land by large kinship (blood relationship)
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The oldest map in the world. Inscribed on mammoth tusk‚ Ukraine What may be one of the oldest authenticated maps in the world‚ is dated to approximately 6000 BC‚ and was unearthed in an archaeological excavation at Catal Huyuk in west-central Turkey in 1963. Its subject matter was the Neolithic town it was found in. Painted on a wall‚ it showed the streets and houses in plan form‚ lying beneath the profile of the mountain of Hazan Dag with its volcano erupting.
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The Paleolithic and Neolithic prehistoric periods have very distinct characteristics. In the Hall of Bulls paintings in Lascaux and a detail copy of a deer hunt‚ wall painting from Catal Huyuk‚ Turkey‚ you can see many similarities‚ as well as differences. The Paleolithic period was over 15‚000 years ago. The people who lived during this time used walls in the caves as their canvas. One of the paintings is located in Southwestern France‚ Lascaux. In the caves‚ Archeologists found paintings of animals
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World History Notes: Chapter One Intro In 1849‚ William Loftus founded the ruins of the city of Uruk‚ one of the first cities in the world. Loftus found this ancient city in a part of Mesopotamia. Mesopotamia was one of the first places where civilization began. The First Humans The first civilizations began in Western Asia and Egypt. The way we determine how civilization came about is through science. Archaeologists find many signs of civilization in ancient ruins. No records were contained
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this new knowledge led to the domestication of plants. The archaeological site of Catal huyuk in southern Turkey today‚ is one of the best-preserved Neolithic settlements. Catal huyuk has given many people a better understanding of the transition from a nomadic life of hunting and gathering to an agriculture lifestyle. The Neolithic Revolution is a great example of the world’s transformation to society and Catal huyuk is the evidence of the event’s impact that is still continued. Due to Neolithic Revolution
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