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    One of the most famous Stone Age sculptures that still remain today and used as a desktop background and one of the 7 wonders of the worlds Introduction: The Stone Age is a broad prehistoric period during which stone was widely used to make implements with a sharp edge‚ a point‚ or a percussion surface. The period lasted roughly 3.4 million years‚ and ended between 4500 BC and 2000 BC with the advent of metalworking.[1] Stone Age artifacts include tools used by humans and by their predecessor species

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    There are many similarities and differences between the way the people of the Old Stone Age and the people of the New Stone Age obtained their food. Question #5 There are many similarities and differences between the way the people of the Old Stone Age and the people of the New Stone Age obtained their food. In the Old Stone Age‚ people hunted for their food‚ while the people of the New Stone Age also had farming to obtain their food. Gathering was a source of food for people

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    Technologies that humans used in the Old Stone Age Fabricating and utilizing tools as well as the cultural transmission of technology became essential to the human mode of existence and were practiced in all human societies. Humans strike as being the only creatures that accommodate tools to create other tools. No human society has survived without technology. Due to evolution humankind has been able to prefect the mastery and transmission of tool making. Administrating fire exemplifies a

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    It is my belief that the author‚ Barbara Ehrenreich does put forward an objective plan. Although she is a journalist‚ she acts as if her true profession is a scientist. She does this by having only one goal set‚ putting rules and boundaries in place for herself‚ and recording and analyzing the data she has collected. She decided to completely change her lifestyle and learn how many Americans live their lives. Ehrenreich tries her hardest to enter this experiment with neutral‚ unbiased ideologies

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    Reading Barbara Ehrenreich interview was very interesting and made me actually think about how others feel or how others are living‚ who appears to be joyful and look like their living good. I agree with just about everything Ehrenreich said. As far as well established businesses that make a plethora amount of money but only pay their employees minimum wage. I personally can’t relate to her interview‚ unfortunately i know a few people who can. Growing up i had a really close friend who parents were

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    The Stone Age Notes

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    1. The Stone Age: The Stone Age‚ Bronze Age‚ and Iron Age Most art in pre – Christian Ireland is abstract. It reflected the technical‚ social and intellectual developments of the time. The pace of change in art and technology was slow at first; it took 5‚000 years from the arrival of the first stone age people for metal technology to be developed in Ireland with the introduction of copper and bronze. It took 1.500 years for iron technology to arrive and 500 more years for the major social and

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    Stone Age Advancements

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    The stone ages were times of great change. The stone ages were times of the early people known as Paleolithic which means old and Neolithic which means new. These people brought great advancements that changed the way people lived. There were great advancements durind the Old Stone Age. One of their advancements of the Paleolithic people was that they learned how to tame fire‚ one of the most important advancements of the stone ages. Fire was good for hunting by surrounding an animal and used

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    published in 1974‚ Marshall Sahlins’ Stone Age Economics challenges that Western societies are more conducive to leisure and prosperity than traditional stone-age cultures. Using evidence from primitive cultures in Africa‚ Australia‚ and Asia‚ Sahlins argues that these hunter-gatherers live a more fulfilling life because they are not concerned with material possessions. While Western societies view scarcity as the basis of unhappiness‚ scarcity in stone-age societies is precisely what drives hunter-gatherers

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    “If economics is the dismal science‚ the study of hunting and gathering economies must be its most advanced branch” (Sahlins 1972: 1). Stone Age Economics is one of the well-known books in the subfield of economic anthropology provided by an American cultural anthropologist‚ Marshall Sahlins. This book is a slight representation in the literature dealing with ‘primitive’ or ‘tribal’ economic life. This book consists of a series of chapters that lacks a proper conclusion of Sahlins discoveries

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    on their own or with their children. It may come in the form of saving money and buying cheaper food or receiving help from the government for a small amount of time. People in these conditions struggle each day to feed and shelter themselves. Ehrenreich has a Ph.D. in biology and is an experienced writer. This would cause her to earn more than the average person on the street. She would not automatically know the struggles of the people around her‚ but she would have an insight on it. She does

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