Mesolithic

Mesolithic foragers hunted their food, lived an active lifestyle and rarely fell ill because of disease. Food was plentiful, resources were naturally rich and communities were widespread. Neolithic farmers brought new technologies and tools, ideologies and wisdom, life ways and languages. The Neolithic agriculturalists provided the spur of development for the human species. The early Neolithic agricultural practices allowed the human species to adopt a dominant role on the planet over others.…

To be religious is to be spiritual. A sacred space is designated by the people as a holy place or even a burial ground. These places have some similarities and some differences. In this essay I will describe each location, similarities and differences each one has. Despite any religion or deity each place signifies a specific time in history where God was reverenced. In 100 B.C., the pyramid of the sun was created in Teotihucan, Mexico. Teotihucan means “place where the Gods where born.” The…

In the book “Worlds of History,” Hughes, Ehrenberg, Clay, Paul, and Senecal all write about the roles of women and their impact on society over the ages. In the section titled “Were The First Artists Mostly Women?’ by Virginia Hughes, she writes about the roles of women who lived in hunting and gathering societies. In hunter-gather societies, women provided more food than men because you could obtain more food by gathering than you could by hunting. It is stated that women contributed to the…

they could make Greece successful. Sakoulas explained how the Greeks were found productive by writing,”A wealth of stone tools found in sites in Espirus, Thessaly, Macedonia, and the Peloponnese reveal the existence of flourishing Paleolithic and Mesolithic communities in the Greek mainland”(Sakoulas,4). The stone tools were there so they could build empires, the Greeks were always working hard to build a new era. The Greeks in the Bronze Age were advanced. The Cycladic, Minoan, and Helladic…

objects of agricultural activity that have undergone the greatest changes when compared with their wild ancestors. Origins Of Domestication The main attempts at domestication of creatures and plants evidently were made in the Old World amid the Mesolithic Period. Pooches were first tamed in Central Asia by no less than 15,000 years back by individuals who occupied with chasing and assembling wild consumable plants. The main effective training of plants, and goats, dairy cattle, and different…

Question 1 Summarize the “vicious circle of agriculture” and “human-plant entanglements,” and their role in how archaeologists approach the origins of food production, sedentary lifeways, and social complexity. When there are conflicts in the world, the food insecurity significantly gets increased and if the world population is food insecure, the conflicts hardly could be prevented. This entire process unfortunately becomes a vicious circle of agriculture. Human-plant entanglements are often…

In the 1800’s a strange skull was discovered in Gibraltar. The remains were name Homo neanderthalensis or Neanderthals, an ancient primitive form of human. They adapted physically and culturally to the ice age conditions that prevailed during much of their time. 10,000 years later the Neanderthals vanished and has been a mystery. Although some sources considered the Neanderthals were primitive with no language, art, stupid presence and no personality, scientists have discovered that the…

Life in the ancient world was risky business. The perils of war, disease, famine and childbirth are a just a few examples of circumstances that contributed to a much lower average lifespan in the ancient world than we have in the modern era. People in antiquity were no less concerned about the prevention and cure of maladies than they are now, however, and entire cults, sanctuaries and professions dedicated to health dotted the spiritual, physical and professional landscapes of the ancient world…

Food production is the process of turning raw ingredients into food products. This can be done through agricultural processes and food technology. During the Epipaleolithic time food production was first developed in the Near East and Mesolithic in Europe (Ember, Ember, & Peregrine, 2015, pp. 159). Food production began through the cultivation and domestication of plants and animals. There was a shift in big game hunting to broad-spectrum collecting. The shift in the way humans secured their…

The use of tools have been an essential part of human history and culture, even before modern humans evolved. Being made up of many layers, tools are valuable sources of evidence that reflects the dexterity and cognitive abilities that the hominid species possesses whether extinct or still living. In this essay, I will be discussing the impact of tools use and the effectiveness it had on our evolutionary history and cultural practices. Developments towards human evolution that aided tool making…