Paleolithic

There are two important sites where Lower Paleolithic tools were found and they are called Barranco León and Fuente Nueva 3 (“Toro-Moyano, Isidro”). Barranco León and Fuente Nueva 3 are located near the town of Orce in Spain. (“Toro-Moyano, Isidro”). Barranco León was first excavated in 1994 and Fuente Nueva 3 was excavated in 1995, both of these sites were still getting excavated in the mid 2000’s (“Schick, Kathy, and Nicholas Toth”). Since 1994 to 2004, 69% of the raw materials that were found…

According to the reading of Brown and Richerson (2014), the major debates among human behavioral ecologists, evolutionary psychologists, and cultural evolutionists was about the most important factor to human development. Cultural evolutionists preferred the social learning over the influence of genetic modules, and evolutionary psychologists held the opposite. Also, Turner and Thompson (2013) argued that the evolutionary discordance or mismatch model was overemphasized on the importance of…

the Lower Paleolithic Age lived in assorted habitats which allowed them to gather seafood, nuts,eggs, and fruits not collected by scavenging. Hunting and gathering was thought to be the main strategy used by human societies to collect food about 1.8 million years ago, and from its re-appearance about 0.2 million years ago. It remained the only way of collecting food until the end of the Mesolithic period about 10,000 years ago. Beginning in transition between the Middle to Upper Paleolithic…

Richard Leakey is convinced that the images depicted in Paleolithic art reflect more than their everyday diet, or environment. Paintings of chimera-like creatures are evidence that these paintings are “greatly mediated by cognitive reflection” (Leakey 109). Leakey’s most interesting attempt to uncover exactly what these drawings represent is when he explores the idea that Paleolithic paintings represent hallucinations. The author relates Paleolithic art to art from the San people to further…

people didn’t have what we call technological advancements. They had to be independent and make use of what their environment had. I think this change was for the better because life has become easier and more advanced. Back then, the people of the Paleolithic Age, used to hunt for their own food. They made their own weapons and formed troops to hunt down large animals. By having this routine, they have developed the necessary skills they need to survive. The women would gather greens, honey,…

Two hundred thousand years ago humans thrived on a paleolithic diet. They were healthy and thin, and their bodies were efficient in running, hunting, fighting sickness, and processing the foods they ate. They evolved on a diet that kept them at their peak physical state, trim and energized to face the dangers of their world. Now modern humans can lose extra weight and get back to their peak physique just by giving their body the paleolithic nutrition that it craves. For this caveman diet,…

had, much like every hunter-gather society, structured a gynocratic civilization centered entirely on females. Paleolithic women were often worshipped for their miraculous life-giving capabilities, and were honored as reincarnations or priestesses of the preeminent Mother Goddess, who, as the Paleolithic people believed, “embodied the bounty of the earth.” Women unfailingly made substantial decisions for their communities, and confidently led their husbands…

Neolithic Revolution On the way toward civilization, humans made many efforts. The Neolithic Revolution was the first major change to facilitate the formation of civilizations. It was a transition from Paleolithic era to Neolithic era. It led people from hunting and gathering to farming and domestication. It also helped people to settle down and to form communities. The results included specialization of jobs and formation of cities, which both fastened the pace of humans toward…

be outside working. It was a society dominated by men. Egalitarian-everybody is equal, prominent in the Paleolithic Era and created a sense of community throughout civilizations. Iron Weapons- weapons made by iron used for the military. This was prominent in Mesopotamia because of how war like it was and was later adopted by other civilizations. Hunter and Gatherer-used in the Paleolithic Era where nomads would use resources from an area until it was all used up and then they…

The structures that were developed in the Upper Paleolithic (Old Stone Age) and Neolithic time period were both similar in many ways, but also very different. During these time periods, artwork was stylized as men and women. These structures were simple and abstract. When comparing the two figurines, they represent men and women figures which resulted in legs being close together and with an hourglass body shape. Also they were fairly small in range and came from different time periods. Along…