The Paleolithic Age was the earliest period of man. This time period dates back to 15,000 BCE. There are many artifacts from the Paleolithic Age including Lucy (female hominid), Otzi (ice man), and cave art. Lucy was one important artifact studied from the Paleolithic Age. In 1964, she was found in a falling position by Donald Carl Johanson in Ethiopia, Africa. She is a hominid, or an early ancestor of man. Only 40% of her body parts were found, but she gave further evidence that mankind began in Africa. Specialized historians used carbon dating, a technique in which x-rays and CAT scans to measure the amount of carbon in an artifact to find the exact age of the object, to study Lucy and make conclusions about her. They found out …show more content…
Otzi had various clothes and hand tools, which helped archaeologists figure out what his life may have been like. A cooper ax for chopping firewood, a six-foot bow with 14 arrows for hunting game, a woven grass cape for extra warmth, a deerskin coat for protection from the cold, a flint knife with a leather case for cutting, and leather pants of animal skins and leather boots insulated with grass to keep the legs and feet warm. These are the reasons Otzi was considered a significant artifact of this time period. Cave paintings also helped improve our understanding of what life was like for early man in the Paleolithic Age. On September 12, 1940, in the Lascaux cave (in Lascaux, France), 4 teenagers discovered a collection of prehistoric paintings (over 600). According to archaeologists, the Paleolithic people found a way to express themselves through their artwork. It was the first art in global history. In addition, the paint came from iron dust, sand, clay, crushed rocks, fruits, charcoal, and blood. Their artwork conveys different messages. The moving animals shows that they were …show more content…
Located in Turkey and discovered in 1961 by a team of British archaeologists, is the site of one of the world’s first farming communities. Çatal Hüyük means “forked mound” in Turkish, which was how their settlement looked. Based on specialized historians, the settlement of Çatal Hüyük, was created around 7,500 BCE. The civilization once housed about 5,000 people. How could so many people live close together at a time when most people still lived as hunters and gatherers? The answer is agriculture. Agriculture provided a way for people to live in large groups without the need to travel great distances to gather food. To use agriculture, people first had to domesticate plants and animals. To domesticate means to train something to be useful to people. And the people at Çatal Hüyük learned to plant seeds and care for edible, or safe to be eaten, plants like wheat, barley, and peas. They also learned to domesticate animals such as wild goats, cattle, and sheep. Furthermore, settlements began due to agriculture and domestication. Houses were built of brick and were arranged side-by-side like a honeycomb to defend the city from attack. There were no streets in Çatal Hüyük and no doors on the houses. People entered their homes from the roof, by climbing down ladders. All of homes in Çatal Hüyük were the same size and shape. Near the ladder, there was a fireplace and an oven for heating and cooking. Çatal Hüyük was the first settlement in the world that developed
In conclusion, The Mesolithic Period is part of the upper Paleolithic. It was followed by the pre-pottery Neolithic era and represented a new phase of culture, characterized by the beginning of settled life.
Çatalhöyük is an archaeological site in Anatolia whose settlement last from approximately 6500 BC to 5720 BC by James Mellaart’s dating. Although the dates given by the current excavating team are from 7300 BC to 6100 BC. Çatalhöyük is most active during the VII to the V levels occurring between 6600 BC to 6300 BC. This can be proven by looking at what makes Çatalhöyük change. Çatalhöyük is a display of amazing continuity over centuries, contrasted strongly by what changes do occur- often in the VII to V levels- in the food related production, the production and use of tools, the changes in house construction, and the tradition that occur inside the home.
Although the ancestors of the Anasazi’s were nomadic people, the Anasazi began to settle and live in one place. Making it harder for them to roam and tend to their gardens and crops at the same time, farming became a staple of their ...
Palaeogeography deals with the reconstruction of physical geographical conditions for the eras of the Earth's history. The term comes from the Greek παλαιός (palaiós) meaning ‘old’ and γεωγραφία (geōgraphía) meaning ‘a description of the earth’ and seems to have been introduced in the Earth sciences vocabulary as ‘Palaeo-Geographie’ by Ami Boué (1794‒1881), a French‒Austrian geologist, in his publication Einiges zur palaeo-geologischen Geographie (Boué, 1875, p. 2). Palaeogeography focuses on the distribution of land and sea, the spread of mountains and volcanoes and the expansion of glaciations, among others. The results are presented in geographic depictions called palaeogeographic maps. A special kind of palaeogeograpahical map is palaeobiogeographical maps depicting the distribution of
The statement in question for this assignment puts forth various assertions: that the Little Ice Age cooled the climate worldwide, that it wasn’t the coldest period since the last ice age, and that because the earth is in a natural time of warming from this period, human-made greenhouse gasses are not plausible as a source of global warming. Some of these statements are true, but there are also fallacies within these assertions.
About 15,000 to 20,000 years ago, toward the end of the final ice age, societies that were most favored by climate and physical geography started to make the evolution from the lengthy period of brutal Old Stone Age, or Paleolithic to a more sustainable and settled way of life relying on agriculture and animal domestication. (Olson, p2) This transition period, or New Stone Age well savagery known as the Neolithic Period, led to raise in population eventually, advancement in the size of societies, and to the emergence of urban life. It is known to us as the Neolithic Revolution sometimes because the rate at which technological innovation advanced, political organization and human social endured a consequent increase in convolution. To comprehend the emergence of technology, it is crucial therefore to survey advancement from the Old Stone Age via the New Stone Age to the appearance of the first metropolitan evolution about 3000 BCE.
The Paleolithic diet also known as caveman diet or Paleo diet is a nutritional diet based on a diet and food consumed during Paleolithic era.
When and why did Homo Sapiens begin to grow into a thriving population that have produced both cognitive and technological advances? No one knows for certain and because of this question countless amounts of people have decided to become anthropologists. Anthropology is defined as, “the study of human beings and their ancestors through time and space and in relation to physical character, environmental and social relations, and culture(Merriam-Webster). Despite all of the time and effort that anthropologists have put into discovering the correct response, the answer to this question is constantly changing because population, cognitivity and technology are constantly changing too. One way to determine how these factors affect Homo Sapiens is by studying past societies. The development of technology expanded rapidly in the Upper Paleolithic era. The technological and cognitive advances made by the growing Upper Paleolithic people changed their lives for the better and allowed them to adapt to their environment in innumerable ways.
The earliest humans appeared in East Africa. They traveled in small kinship-based groups. 95% of the earliest humans were hunter-gathers. The men hunted while the women and children gathered. The earliest humans followed migration patterns and eventually traveled to other continents by foot and boat. They were very adaptable to their environment and geography. They made tools to which helped them adjust to their surroundings, such as sewing needles or a bow and arrow. They would often bury these tools with those that had died. Some would even lay the dead on wildflowers and cover the body with garland and shrouds. Earliest people were very creative people. They are most known for their cave art and Venus figurines. Also, throughout their
Art of the upper Paleolithic period has been discovered around the world. From Africa, to the Americas, to Asia, and Europe there are cave paintings ranging from twelve thousand to thirty six thousand years old and are more concentrated in the regions of France and Spain. An example of such artwork was discovered in the Lascaux caves of southwestern France on September 12, 1940 and immediately put under monument protection. Rather than only one painting, archaeologists stumbled upon a complex cave system with chambers that divided the paintings into different subjects. There’s a “great hall of bulls” as well as the “Chamber of felines”, and the “Shaft of the dead men”. The cave paintings are believed to be around twenty thousand years old and
4. The Paleozoic era began with the Cambrian period, around 540 million years ago. At this time, marine life became very abundant, and the first fish started to appear. Animal families became more diverse 480 million years ago, starting the Ordovician period, which ended
The age of the planet earth is sometimes a controversial topic, most believers, usually Christians, believe that due to what the bible has provided, the earth is somewhere near 6,000-12,000 years old. That’s only how far back the bible goes as for stories. An argument about it is that the bible only implies that humans have been around for 6,000+ years and not necessarily the earth itself, but with the beliefs of Adam and Eve, a lot of Christians think that. The common belief about the first humans was that God created them and put them on earth the last day he created the universe. The duration of the day to God, or what is in the bible may be drastically different than the 24hours we believe and live through today, so the opinion is not the most popular.
Although it may not feel like it, we are currently in an ice age today. An ice age is just a period of time when the Earth’s climate faces a radical decrease in temperature and remains constant. Periods of colder temperature during an ice age have been called "glaciations" because they result in something being covered by glaciers or ice sheets. Intervals of warmer, irregular temperatures have been called "interglacials", which is what we are currently living in today (Eldridge and Biek). However, some scientists believe that the climate may dramatically decrease in the near future, and we could see glaciers return again like we did in the last glacial period. This last glacial period is referred to as “The Ice Age.” It was the most recent glacial period within our
Archeology is the study of human behavior, development and origin and it provides a better understanding of man’s past. Some individuals are very excited to participate in this area of study. Archeology is a way to learn about the history the Earth that includes human civilizations and geological changes. While exploring the world, archeologist use different methods to find the answers to many of humanities questions. To have a better understand of the field of archeology, one needs to know the educational and skills required, career opportunities, and the future of archeology.
“In the beginning, God created the heavens and the earth ….” (King James Version, Genesis 1:1). The Bible clearly identifies who created the world and how it was formed. No one knows when the earth was created or what it could have looked like. There are many ideas of what it was like based on what is written in the Bible. Christians believe the Bible, the story of creation, and that God created the world in seven literal days. However, evolutionists continue to believe that there is evidence that the universe and the earth took billions of years to form. They also believe that life on Earth has come about by the process of evolution, as proposed by Charles Darwin. Scientists are studying different processes and trying to reconstruct the past, but no one can scientifically prove or agree on any one view of history: creation or evolution, old earth or young earth, uniformity, or Noah’s flood. The best one can do is to identify one’s view of history, interpret the evidence within that, and see which view gives the best explanation. The controversy about the age of the earth continues today because of some important arguments, including the importance of how the earth was biblically created in a twenty-four hour period, an evaluation of the evolution timeline claiming an old earth, and a creationists