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Early Man

Early Man. Paleolithic, Mesolithic, Neolithic. Earliest Humans. 2.5 Million Years ago, earliest humans in Ethiopia 240,000 Years ago, Homo Sapiens Sapiens 100,000 Years ago, developed speech Humans:. Pros: Opposable thumb Regular sex drive: aids reproduction Omnivores

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Early Man

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  1. Early Man Paleolithic, Mesolithic, Neolithic

  2. Earliest Humans • 2.5 Million Years ago, earliest humans in Ethiopia • 240,000 Years ago, Homo Sapiens Sapiens • 100,000 Years ago, developed speech • Humans: • Pros: • Opposable thumb • Regular sex drive: aids reproduction • Omnivores • Speech and facial expression • Cons: • Violent against species • Dependant babies • Back problems • Knowledge of imminent death

  3. Hunters and Gatherers • Benefits • Worked 7 hours every 3 days • Men and women equal • Little warfare • Downside • No stable food supply • 2.5 miles per person, so limited number of people Earliest known blog post

  4. Stone Ages • Paleolithic (Old Stone Age) 1 million – 12,000 BCE • Use of Fire • Simple stone and wood tools • Erect, bigger brain • Rituals, cave paintings, goddesses • Spread over much of earth ** Around 25,000 BCE People went over Bering Land Bridge to Americas** • Mesolithic (Middle Stone Age) 12,000 – 8000 BCE • Shaped stone and bone tools: needles, fishhooks, awls • Rafts, canoes • Pots, baskets • Domesticated cow • Growth of population = more wars • Neolithic (New Stone Age) 8000 – 4000 BCE • Agriculture • Cities

  5. Bering Land Bridge, 25,000 years Ago

  6. Neolithic Revolution 8000 BCE • End of last Ice Age 10,000 BCE • Population increases • Retreat of big game, must feed more on smaller game • Needed better food supply • Developed agriculture • Developed independently in China, Middle East, and Americas • Led to end of Hunting and Gathering because: • Cleared forests • People in citied developed immunity to disease, H&G did not

  7. Changes and Continuities of Agriculture • Changes: • Higher birth rate: H&G babies breast fed until 4 or 5, Farm babies until 18 months • Reduced migration, sedentary instead of nomadic • Specialization leads to social inequality and hierarchy • Larger groups lead to disease • Continuities • Slow to change; people afraid of new ways • Challenge of hunt valued • Agriculture makes men take on traditionally feminine roles; begin to claim superiority to women

  8. Bronze Age • Around 4000 BCE: discovery of metal tools in Middle East • First copper then bronze (copper and tin) • By 3000 BCE no more stone tools in Middle East • Benefits: • Work the ground easier • Better weapons • Earliest Civilizations: • Yellow River, Nile River, Indus River, Mesopotamia, Andes

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