Neolithic

Popcorn was domesticated in 5000 BCE by the Pre-Columbian indigenous people. It arrived in the American Southwest over 2500 years ago, but wasn’t found east of the Mississippi River until the early 1800s because of environmental and botanical variables. Prior to the 19th century, Midwestern soil couldn’t grow corn. The invention of the steel plow turned the Midwest into the corny oasis it is today. As popcorn popularity surged, various popcorn snacks were invented and it brought new intensity to…

Prehistorical people started to build houses during Neolithic period using clay, mud, dung, and straw interwoven among wooden posts. Some better huts might have foundations made of stone, set into trenches, and supporting walls of large timbers (Stokstad, p.13). The Styles of houses were vary in different regions. These houses were rebuild again and again over time, and human burials were found under these houses. That makes it very difficult to determine whether or not these houses were used as…

system and the Bronze Age was the second period of the system, before the Iron Age and after the Stone Age. It began in 4000 BCE and lasted until 1500 BCE. It was distinguished by the use of bronze. The Bronze Age was a period of time after the Neolithic Age when ancient humans upgraded from making tools out of stone and hunting and gathering their food to mining and smelting copper and tin in order to make bronze tools, weapons, and farm equipment and learning about agriculture. This gave them…

Stonehenge one of the more popular “big stones” amongst the groups of what are classified as menhirs caught my attention because of its majestic structure and its beautiful green body of land which just pokes out at you and grabs the eye. What immediately drew me into this glorious architectural construction is the complexity of its body of work. Instantly I became so concerned because I couldn’t help but think well how did they do it? Good question how did they construct such a sophisticated…

Religion started as an awareness of oneself and then the awareness of something more than us and probably began at the time when humans began to cultivate in the Paleolithic era between 10,000 and 40,000 years ago. Religion has occurred in each segment of art in different cultures. As history evolved, culture evolved from cave paintings to elaborate sculptures and architecture. Polytheism I believe started as an earlier practice than monotheism since the earliest cultures like the Egyptian…

QUESTION 1 Name and discuss three major cultural changes or contributions to the humanities that occurred between the Paleolithic (Old Stone Age) to the Neolithic (New Stone Age) period (wall paintings, architecture, literature, technology). Between the Paleolithic Age and Neolithic Age, wall paintings were a major cultural change to humanities. Paleolithic life comes largely from paintings found in caves. Most of these paintings were naturalistic. For example, ‘many of the animals-bison,…

President Dwight D. Eisenhower once said, “Farming looks mighty easy when your plow is a pencil and you're a thousand miles from the corn field.” This statement is very relatable to the situation mankind was in before the neolithic age. Farming was a mystery to mankind, most men and women were hunter-gatherers and did not understand the value behind or how to farm. Typically the men hunted while the women gathered, this gave both genders had a similarly equal role in their lives. The daily life…

The Original Farmers Only.com Humanities’ perseverance and will to survive set up the Neolithic Era. During this time, the Agricultural Revolution was born. The Agricultural Revolution is defined as "the deliberate cultivation of particular plants as well as the taming and breeding of particular animals" according to Strayer. The revolution sparked a remarkable change in our world. With the invention of agriculture, people groups were now able to settle in villages rather than constantly being…

the essence of civilization, because a civilization cannot exist if there is no stable food supply. In the Paleolithic Age the food supply fluctuated because agriculture didn’t exist yet and humans were hunting and gathering food. However, in the Neolithic Age agriculture came into existence and people could live in one place and no…

One of the most important stages to define and understand the development of Egyptian civilization was the Predynastic era (the Egyptian Neolithic), a period of time spanning from 4000 to 3200 BC that was a precursor of Pharaonic Egypt and its dynasties of kings. Neolithic communities of Upper and Lower Egypt cultivated different kinds of barley, spelt, flax, fruits and vegetables. It is also known that different kinds of animals were domesticated. Both steps were necessary for all later history…