Section 1.1 Assessment Questions & Answers
1. Q: For each term or name (listed), write a sentence explaining its significance.
A: Artifact - These human-made items help explain what early hominids wore for clothing, what they did, and/or how they worshipped. Culture - Anthropologists study early hominid culture, and they can peace a picture of the early peoples’ cultural behavior. Many modern humans still have cultural beliefs.
Hominid - Modern human beings, us, are hominids, creatures that walk upright; this provides an advantage in hunting and other useful skills.
Paleolithic Age - The oldest stone chopping toles date back to this era.
Neolithic Age - People during this age learned to polish stone tools, make pottery, and raise
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Q: Which advance by a hominid group do you think was the most significant? Explain.
A: The development of languages was probably the most significant because it helped people communicate with others, leading to advanced hunting strategies and other means of cooperating as a team.
3. Q: What clues do bones and artifacts give about early peoples?
A: Bones reveal their looks, food they ate, diseases they had. Artifacts reveal their cultural beliefs, how they worshipped, and among other things, the way they dressed.
4. Q: What were the major achievements in human history during the Old Stone Age?
A: The major achievements in human history during this era are the mastery over fire, inventions of useful tools, and development of language.
5. Q: How did Neanderthals and Cro-Magnons differ from earlier peoples? A: They differed mainly intelligence advancements, such as brain size, and knowledge/intelligence. They also applied what they knew in the later ages to benefit themselves.
Section 1.2 Assessment Questions & Answers:
1. Q: For each term or name (listed), write a sentence explaining its significance.
A: Nomad - For thousands of years, peoples in the Stone Ages were nomads, people who moved from place to
The Neolithic Period was a shift to a more civilized man. The people had new ideas and were changing their environment making life easier. The adaptation of agriculture in the Neolithic Era was valuable because it created a stable life rather than a nomadic one. In Neolithic village life they grew crops and indulged
During the period 1550-1800, the colonization of the Americas by European civilizations led to massive shifts in economic power from the West to East and vice-versa. An increase in global competition among western civilizations and against their asian counterparts drove Europeans to search for wealth elsewhere, and thus colonizing the Americas. One of the easiest ways to generate a profit, increase a civilizations wealth, and ultimately their military power was through the silver trade. In monopolizing said trade, Europe was able to establish a somewhat steady economic connection to the very wealthy Asian civilizations. However, european nations were struggling to keep control of the silver trade out of Asian hands, which caused major shifts
Ever since unfair British legislation, such as the Intolerable Acts, led to the American Revolution, banding together as a group proved effective in making a change. Organized labor is only another example of how sizable groups make more of an impact on large corporations than one person does. Labor unions improved the positions of workers by causing employers to think twice about wages, giving legal recognition such as lowering work hours and drawing attention to the issue of child labor. The increase in awareness that organized groups caused is what ultimately decided the court case of Muller v, Oregon in 1908, which made it illegal for women to work for more than ten hours a day.
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The prehistoric times stand evidence to the power of language as a tool for communication and growth. Language has proven to be an effective medium and factor surrounding the evolution of man. Language has played a big role in the development of individuals and societies. What is spoken and/or written, help in the initiation of imagination, expression of feelings, and conveyance of thoughts and ideas.
Even before the eve of the Revolution, the colonists constantly had the image of independence lingering in the back of their heads. The colonists felt that they were first on a loose leash, and as that leash tightened over the years, the colonists began to understand their true culture and identity. As time passed, the colonists developed a greater sense of their identity and unity as Americans and by the eve of the Revolution, even though at first the colonists were unorganized and had problems with being united, they remained determined to gain their identity and unity as Americans.
Around the beginning of the sixteenth centruy, many countires had started to explore farther away and finding new territories. New products like sugar and taobacco began to emerge around the world in many places. Many countries in Europe were gaining power due to the control of colonies in the Americas. Asian countries did not explore as much, but still managed to remain large and powerful for a while. The global flow of silver had economic effects on inflating prices of goods and stimulating econimic policy of mercantilism, and social effects on negative effects on the lower class around the world during the mid-sixteenth century to the early eighteenth century.
Using a scanning electron microscope Shipman studied several types of marks left on the fossil remains of prey animals. Two of these marking she determined came from stone tools. These stone tools were used in two different ways leaving two different sets of marks. The first set of marks where located around joints and suggested disarticulation, and the second set removing flesh from bone. She then compared bones from the Olduvai to the Neolithic. Discovering Olduvai hominids did not practiced disarticulation as often as Neolithic hominids. But both Olduvai and Neolith...
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“The scientific study of how humans developed did not begin until the 1800s in Europe. Until that time, people relied on religious explanations of how humans came into existence. Starting in the 1500s a scientific revolution began to sweep Europe. Thinkers started using scientific methods and experiments to try to better understand the world and the creatures living in it. Eventually these methods were turned to the question of human origins” (The Nature Of Human Origins, 1). Earth made it possible for species to change over time because Ancient Earth provides ability to plenty of time.The Homo Sapien a is very complex creature. The species started off very simple by living in caves and surviving with little food and then later evolved into a species that were able to do many more complex things. The first species was Sahelanthropus tchadensis They were one of the most simple humans in that time period and on. They had very small skulls compared to Homo Sapiens today and their motor skills were just the same. We have evolved and changed for the better both mentally and physically. The Evolution of Homo Sapiens started off simple, such as the Neanderthals, and now we are the most advanced species to ever walk the planet so far.
Upper Paleolithic art can be put into two major categories; figurative arts such as cave painting that clearly depict images of animals or animals; and non-figurative, arts which consist of symbols and shapes. The paintings were a form of magic designed to ensure successful kill during hunting. Symbols like images and unique symbolic patterns are also common in this age that might have been trademarked to represent different ethnic groups Venus figurines have been described as a representation of gods, pornographic imagery, apotropaic, amulets used for sympathetic magic. Also, a variety of lower quality art and figurine has also been identified that shows a wide range of skills and ages among the artist of the Upper Paleolithic age. The main themes in the paintings and other artifacts such as powerful beasts, dangerous hunting scenes, and over-sexual representation women are also expected in the fantasies of an adolescent. Such images associated with upper Paleolithic age have been discovered in Bradshaw archeological site in
Despite not having an established society or economy, man in the Paleolithic Age had increasing technology. Their weapons and tools were made of wood and stone, and they had manifested the ability to control fire. The Paleolithic Age also berthed language and thus established the first historical backgrounds of modern man. Paleolithic art gives the background for the culture of the time. Depicting a society classed only by sex: Men hunted, made weaponry and tools, and fought other nomadic bands; Women gathered, made clothing, and bore children.
brought about an end to a nomadic existence for human kind and the beginning of trade and
Creationists believe that humans were always humans. Humans are classified in the mammalian family Primates. In this arrangement, humans, along with our extinct close ancestors, and our nearest living relatives, the African apes, are sometimes placed together in the family Hominidae because of genetic similarities. Two-leg walking seems to be one of the earliest of the major hominine characteristics to have evolved. In the course of human evolution the size of the brain has been more than tripled.
The Neolithic Agrarian Revolution was the world’s first historically confirmable revolution in agriculture. It was the progression of many human cultures from a lifestyle of hunting and gathering to one of agriculture and settlement, which was supported with a big increasing population. This agriculture involved the domestication of plants and animals, which developed around 9,500 B.C. During this age various types of plants and animals derived in different locations all over the world. It converted the small groups of hunters and gatherers into more intelligent agricultural people. Those groups then formed into sedentary societies that built towns and villages, while they also altered they natural environment around them by food-crop fertilization. Therefore, allowing them to have an abundance for their food production. Just these few developments have provided high population density settlements, complex labor diversification, trading economics, the development of portable art, architecture, culture, centralized administrations and political structures, hierarchical ideologies, and systems of knowledge.