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Prehistory to History:. Issues and beginnings!. I. How do we signify time?. B.C./ A.D. Before Christ, Anno Domini Example: 64 BC, AD 2007 BCE/ CE Before Common Era, Common Era Example 64 BCE, CE 2007 Both use the year 1 as the start for the Common Era.
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Prehistory to History: Issues and beginnings!
I. How do we signify time? • B.C./ A.D. Before Christ, Anno Domini Example: 64 BC, AD 2007 • BCE/ CE Before Common Era, Common Era Example 64 BCE, CE 2007 • Both use the year 1 as the start for the Common Era
III. Paleolithic Era: “Old Stone Age” 250,000-10,000 years ago • Hunter-gatherers/foraging • LONGEST era of human history • Got what they needed w/ out transforming their environment • Created symbolic language which allowed them to adapt to a wide range of environments • This prehistoric time period is studied by:
Archaeologists = The material life of hominids (artifacts)
Anthropologists 15,000 years old! =look at cultural and spiritual
For tens of thousands of years, humans survived by hunting game and gathering edible plants. Men hunted and women gathered. They are called nomadic “hunter-gatherers”. About 10,000 years ago ( BCE 8,000) this changed, independently all over the world as humans began to settle down in one place. WHY?
= Neolithic Revolution • The major change in human life caused by the beginnings of farming (from food gathering to food producing) • Your book claims that this is one of the great breakthroughs of history. Do you agree with the book? Using your significance tool, the text on pages 14-16 (all graphics, maps, charts included), create a REASONED and EVIDENCED response to the book’s claim.