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Human Origins & Culture

Human Origins & Culture. Take notes on the slides and Some slides require you to answer a question or complete activities. What Makes Us Human?.

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Human Origins & Culture

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  1. Human Origins & Culture Take notes on the slides and Some slides require you to answer a question or complete activities

  2. What Makes Us Human? The most likely explanation for hominids becoming bipedal involves the need for freeing up the hands for something — carrying simple tools (sticks, stones and other found objects), food or water.

  3. Early Paleolithic Upper Paleolithic Middle Paleolithic

  4. Nomadic Hunters/Gatherers • Food gatherers as opposed to food producers • Nomadic – roaming from place to place looking for resources • 95% of human existence people were hunters/gatherers

  5. “Ice Man” (Bronze Age): Who was he? http://ngm.nationalgeographic.com/2011/11/iceman-autopsy/hall-text

  6. Neolithic Revolution Shift from hunting/gathering to plant/animal cultivation about 12,000 years ago “neo” = new “lithic”=stone Various Locations: Fertile Crescent Egypt Indus Valley China the Americas

  7. Origin of Domestication for Selected Plants Independent Origins of Agriculture wheat 10,500 ybp maize 4,200 ybp rice 7,000 ybp millet 4,000 ybp manioc 4,200 ybp

  8. Cultural Changes of the Neolithic: • -Settling Down (instead of being nomadic) • -Domestication of plants and animals • Agriculture (sedentary agricultural communities) • Technological Changes (use of metal for tools) • Use of writing • Urbanization (cities) • Labor specialization (certain people doing certain jobs) • Long-distance trade • Political Systems

  9. Why Did Agriculture Develop? Domestication Process: change from wild plant or animal to a “crop” through -Cultivation (management) -Use of artificial selection

  10. Mayan glyphs Cuneiform

  11. Model of a fortified Turkish village of Hacilon, about 5400 BCE. 1. West wall 2. East wall 3. Northwest gate 4. North courtyard 5. Parching oven 6. Granary 7. House 8. Small courtyard 9. Kitchen 10. South gate 11. South courtyard 12. Basket weaving area 13. Pottery workshop 14. Pottery courtyard 15. Shrine 16. Well

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