Paleolithic Notes

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Achievements

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Invention of tools and weapons
Language
Control of fire
Art (sculpture, jewelry, cave paintings)

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100,000 BC

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Humans evolved physically and mentally to the level of today= opposable thumbs and developed brain

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Paleolithic means

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Old Stone Age

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Paleolithic years

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2.5 million years ago– 10,000 BC

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Archaeologist

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People who study fossils and artifacts

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Paleontologist

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Study dinosaur fossils

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Hominids

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Early human ancestors, 3 types

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3 types of hominids

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Homo habilis
Homo erectus
Homo sapiens

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Homo

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Human

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Homo habilis

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Ability

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Homo erectus

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Walks upright

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Homo sapien

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Thinks

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Earliest tool users

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Homo habilis

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Tools distinguish us from

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Animals

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Earliest tools

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Stone

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Hand axes

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Some of then earliest tools

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First to domesticate fire

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Homo erectus

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When did the homo erectus domesticate fire?

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500,000 years ago

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Fire is

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Important

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What did fire do?

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Reduced mortality
Allows us to move to colder climates
Improved diet
Protected us from animals

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4 Ice Ages

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2 mil–10,000 yrs ago

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What happened during the 4 Ice Ages?

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Glaciers spread from the poles
Oceans dropped, land bridges came
Humans adapted to cold or moved

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Strategies for keeping warm

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Clothes and fire

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Women ———, men ———-

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Gathered

Hunted

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Equality between ------

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Sexes

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-------- helped survive

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Everyone

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Who was responsible for finding food?

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Men and women

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Out of Africa Theory

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Humans evolved relatively recently in Africa, then moved to other continents

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100,000 BC

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Africa to Middle East

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40,000 BC

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Africa to Europe

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35,000 BC

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Africa to Eastern Asia

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15,000 BC

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Africa to North America

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Hunter gatherers

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Hunted for food and gathered plants l, nuts, berries, or whatever was edible, also fishing

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Hunter gatherers' hometown?

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None

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Hunter gatherers were

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Nomadic

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Nomadic

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You follow animals where they migrate and where plants grow, move often

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Do hunter gatherers keep extra grain?

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No

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Extra food saved is called

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Surplus

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Was stone the only stone?

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No

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Major innovation=

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Wooden handles

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Hand axes were given

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Handles

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Stone to the end of sticks=

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Spears

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Sticks hardened in a

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Fire

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Kinship groups

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Social, political, and economic unit 20-30 Related people

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Kin

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Family

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Religion

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Animistic

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Animistic

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Saw spirits in places, events, and nature

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Lascaux caves

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Paintings made of animals between 25,000--12,000 years ago

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Art predates

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Farming

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Art was important from

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Our earliest history

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Paintings

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Possibly a ritual