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 ABOUT THE HUMAN PAST IS A CONTINUING PROCESS… PALEOLITHIC AGE • Greek words: lithos which means “stone” and palaios‚ “ancient.” • Life during Old Stone Age Nomads-wander from place to place (caves or in tents) Small groups of 20-30 people Food gathering-wild fruit‚ nuts‚ seeds‚ honey‚ roots‚ and
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on the ways that we lived. Those four main ways are listed above. The Stone Age lasted about two million years ago in some places and because of the vast time span it took-up‚ it was divided into three periods which are the Paleolithic‚ Mesolithic and Neolithic eras. Some of which lasted longer than others. If the era which we are in now could last that long we still could not develop such things as farming‚ settlements and tools. However if it did last that long the tools‚ farming
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wooden tools became permissible to humankind. Their knowledge of fire gave early humans a sense of great control over nature. Two million years ago to the end of the Last Ice Age the Paleolithic age was born. Paleolithic technology established through the service of a basic food collecting economy. Paleolithic tools sustained in hunting or savaging animals and for collecting and processing plant and animal food. Food collecting produced little surplus. Males generally hunted for animals‚ while
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The Upper Paleolithic was a period of great transition in the world. This was the height of technical sophistication during the Old Stone Age. The Neanderthals in Europe became edged out and disappeared by 33‚000 years ago‚ and modern humans began to have the world to themselves. Naturally‚ this will lead to what many have called a time of “creative explosion”. In the Upper Paleolithic‚ culture emerged as a stronger force than biology. Humans no longer needed to use their physical strength; tools
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These Paleolithic Art the Venus of Willendorff and Dolini Vestonice‚ are both estimated from the same time around 23‚000 to 28‚000 B.C‚ but discovered in two different locations in Europe. “Man-made artifacts from this period shows the very earliest signs of workmanship‚ from small personal adornments and cave paintings to the prevalent Venus figurines‚ which represent the earliest known works of figurative art.”(Holloway) These two figurines are believed to represent the symbolism of fertility or
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kinship 2. very low population density (because of available technology) a. very slow population growth b. perhaps 10‚000 people in world 100‚000 years ago c. grew to 500‚000 by 30‚000 years ago d. reached 6 million 10‚000 years ago 3. Paleolithic bands were seasonally mobile or nomadic a. moved in regular patterns to exploit wild plants and animals b. since they moved around‚ they couldn’t accumulate goods 4. societies were highly egalitarian a. perhaps the most free people in human
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Venus of Willendorf The Paleolithic era was the time of Homo-sapiens ascendancy. They were hunter-gatherers who survived off of killing animals for food and gathering things such as berries‚ nuts‚ and roots. They became more advanced than their ancestors by making tools like the hand axe‚ chisel‚ the arrow and spearhead‚ and the grinder. With some of these tools they would carve small sculpture‚ the most famous of which is the Venus of Willendorf‚ a figure representing the ideal woman. In today’s
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The most famous early image of a human‚ a woman‚ is the so-called "Venus" of Willendorf‚ is a 11.1 cm (4 3/8 inches) high statuette of a female figure‚ discovered at a Paleolithic site in 1908 at a Aurignacian loess deposit near the town of Willendorf in Austria. It is now in the Naturhistorisches Museum in Vienna. The statue was carved from oolitic limestone‚ and was colored with red orche. It is dated 30‚000 and 25‚000 BC. Her great age and pronounced female forms quickly established the Venus
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Attitudes Towards Animals in Neolithic and Assyrian Times Animals have been viewed differently by different cultures. This is evident when comparing the wall painting of a deer hunt from the Neolithic period (Gardner‚ 38) and the reliefs of Ashurbanipal hunting lions and the dying lions from the Assyrian dominated period of the ancient near east (Gardner‚ 56). The deer hunt scene‚ painted at Catal Huyuk c. 5750 BC‚ depicts several humans hunting two large deer and one small deer. The reliefs
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Paleolithic Age: The period of Stone Age associated with the evolution of humans. Predates the Neolithic period. Neolithic Age: The period of the Stone Age associated with the ancient Agricultural Revolution(s). Follows by Paleolithic period. Foragers: People who support themselves by hunting wild animals & gathering wild edible plants & insects. Agricultural Revolution: The change from food gathering to food production that occurred between ca. 8000 & 2000 B.C.E (also known as Neolithic Revolution)
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