Stone Age Cultures

Question 1

When did the early stone age take place? Late?

Answer 1

2,000,000 - 30,000 BCE
30,000 - 10,000 BCE

Question 2

What is culture?

Answer 2

The subsets of groups within a single civilization.

Question 3

What is civilization?

Answer 3

Numerous cultures within one defined area

Question 4

Historic vs. Prehistoric

Answer 4

prehistoric is before written history and historic is once written history began

Question 5

Anthropologists

Answer 5

studies origins, races, customs of various humans

Question 6

Archaeologists

Answer 6

studies remains of ancient culture at the site

Question 7

Paleontologists

Answer 7

studies life of past geological periods

Question 8

Paleoanthropology

Answer 8

studies earliest phases of human history

Question 9

What were some tools of the stone age?

Answer 9

Eoliths/fist hatchet, use of fire (1M BCE) & cooking

Question 10

Homo habilis

Answer 10

have tool making ability, larger brains, erect walking, socially cooperative

Question 11

Homo erectus

Answer 11

Java, Heidelberg, Peking Hominids

Question 12

Homo Sapiens

Answer 12

Neanderthals, Cro-Magnon

Question 13

Homo Sapiens Sapiens

Answer 13

Us now! After 30,000 BCE tribes of 30-50 led by patriarch

Question 14

What was the shelter of the stone age?

Answer 14

Caves, Pit Dwellings using wood, hides, & sod

Question 15

What was the communication like in the stone age?

Answer 15

speech, thinking, oral transmission, & nomadic movement

Question 16

How was religion & art in the stone ages?

Answer 16

They had shamans, medicine men, high priests, group & hunting leaders, adolescent ceremonies

Cave art, sympathetic (manifestation) art, clay models & sculptures; animal skin for clothing

buried dead, cannibalism, funeral rites

Question 17

what was animism?

Answer 17

the belief that life exists everywhere with separate spirts & fertility deities

Question 18

How did the stone age culture people survive?

Answer 18

Hunters & gatherers, primitive sewing & fishing

Question 19

What were the achievements of the Mesolithic Period (10,000-7,000)?

Answer 19

Semi-sedentary existence starts, microliths made finer weapons (knives, arrows, axes, hooks), harvested wild grain & farming, domestication of animals, log boats, sun baked pottery.

New population at 5.3 million by 10,000 BCE

Question 20

What were the accomplishments of the Neolithic Period (7,000-3,500 BCE)?

Answer 20

polished stone with design, improved pottery & weapons, Copper after 3500, full domestication of animals (dog & flocks), grain becomes commerce, labor & irrigation division, houses of wood, brick (Jericho village), weaving & fishing nets

Question 21

What was Catal Huyuk?

Answer 21

A village in Turkey that was largest in food producing ca. 6,500 BCE with 32 acres and 12 levels; also had religious buildings

Question 22

What was the community of the Neolithic Period like?

Answer 22

they had the state, laws & customs, complexity, religious magic, and writing in cuneiform

male dominance also takes over due to property ownership, trade & war come about

megaliths constructed

Question 23

What was significant about the Bronze Age (3,500 - 1,500 BCE)?

Answer 23

Bronze is made of copper + tin and more pliable, large farm plowing, irrigation improved, wheel invented, sailboat, CITIES EMERGE

Justice and behavior was not violating the decided customs and they wanted to maintain equilibrium

Question 24

When was the iron age?

Answer 24

after 1,500 BCE

Question 25

What were the Major Themes of Pre-historic Peoples?

Answer 25

• Cultures rising and falling
• Unpredictable advancement through ages
• Early Religious Values
• Maintain Equilibrium with behavior & justice