Sophia Nguyen
Period 5
Chapter 1 Document
1. I feel that Nisa’s account of her life helps with understanding the much earlier Paleolithic people is very helpful because it gives a first person perspective on the life of a person living in a hunting-gathering society, like the Paleolithic people. Because Nisa doesn’t get much exposure to people outside her society, communicating with others was especially more important to her.
2. To Nisa, sex was very important to her because she didn’t want to make love until she had fully realized the idea of love. It’s very different from contemporary society because sex was more sacred to the people of her generation, and in our society, it’s not as valued.
3. Nisa believes that God is a cruel deity that …show more content…
Otzi was discovered in 1991, and became very famous since he was buried in the Neolithic era, causing many scientists to study his lifestyle and characteristics. Otzi was a 5’5” tall man who was probably in his mid-forties when he died, and was found many thousands of years after his death, preserved in the mountainous area where he was discovered. His bones indicated that Otzi lived most of his life in the steep, cold mountains, and there were traces of arsenic in his hair, which suggested that he had contact with the smelting of copper. He had a long gash in his hand points, a flint arrow that was stuck in his back, and had a severed artery, so Otzi did not die from natural causes. Although the cause of his death is known, not much about the reasons for why he was killed is …show more content…
The source that seems the most useful is maybe the story about Otzi because the paragraphs in the source were very descriptive and the detail about how old he was, what he wore, ate before he died, etc. were very helpful to writing something about him. Nisa’s contemporary account is more insightful than the physical remains from long ago because it gives a first person perspective on how life was like in a hunting-gathering society. Although she does not live in the same era as the Paleolithic people, their experiences were generally the same. The advantage is that there is a first person perspective on the life of someone in a hunter-gatherer society. However, a disadvantage is that Nisa did not live in the same time period as the Paleolithic people, so her account doesn’t really accurately describe the way they
Period 5
Chapter 1 Document
1. I feel that Nisa’s account of her life helps with understanding the much earlier Paleolithic people is very helpful because it gives a first person perspective on the life of a person living in a hunting-gathering society, like the Paleolithic people. Because Nisa doesn’t get much exposure to people outside her society, communicating with others was especially more important to her.
2. To Nisa, sex was very important to her because she didn’t want to make love until she had fully realized the idea of love. It’s very different from contemporary society because sex was more sacred to the people of her generation, and in our society, it’s not as valued.
3. Nisa believes that God is a cruel deity that …show more content…
Otzi was discovered in 1991, and became very famous since he was buried in the Neolithic era, causing many scientists to study his lifestyle and characteristics. Otzi was a 5’5” tall man who was probably in his mid-forties when he died, and was found many thousands of years after his death, preserved in the mountainous area where he was discovered. His bones indicated that Otzi lived most of his life in the steep, cold mountains, and there were traces of arsenic in his hair, which suggested that he had contact with the smelting of copper. He had a long gash in his hand points, a flint arrow that was stuck in his back, and had a severed artery, so Otzi did not die from natural causes. Although the cause of his death is known, not much about the reasons for why he was killed is …show more content…
The source that seems the most useful is maybe the story about Otzi because the paragraphs in the source were very descriptive and the detail about how old he was, what he wore, ate before he died, etc. were very helpful to writing something about him. Nisa’s contemporary account is more insightful than the physical remains from long ago because it gives a first person perspective on how life was like in a hunting-gathering society. Although she does not live in the same era as the Paleolithic people, their experiences were generally the same. The advantage is that there is a first person perspective on the life of someone in a hunter-gatherer society. However, a disadvantage is that Nisa did not live in the same time period as the Paleolithic people, so her account doesn’t really accurately describe the way they