Paleolithic

Will people be surprised if they know the researchers found what they eat everyday is the cause of obesity and other chronic diseases? With the development of the technology, more refined food was included in people’s dietary. Are these foods related with the increase of diseases? In the article “Against the grains”, Melinda Moyer talks about the relationship of grains and several diseases, and she stated “Numerous best-sellers blame wheat, gluten and sugar for obesity, neurological disorders,…

Sculpture and Architecture have represented cultures for thousands of years, all the way back to the paleolithic era, and are still used in today’s culture. Sculpture and Architecture are used in so many different ways, for example to honor leaders, as religious symbols, decoration, and artistic expression just to name a few. They are also landmarks that help us remember the past and works of art that we can admire in the present. Today I will be exploring the similarities and differences…

“experienced frequent climatic oscillations” (Hassan 2014) and, thus, local climates were experiencing major changes. In what was to become known as China, these changes allowed agriculture to emerge and take root in advantageous societies. While late Paleolithic sites are found in many regions, "it is in the river drainages of the lowest “step” (sea level to 1,000 m) that hunter-gatherers first became sedentary” (Cohen 2011). Thus, we have our first example of how the ability to access greater…

On a day to day basis, it becomes easy to simply fall into routine and monotony like a cog in a machine. I consider myself incredibly fortunate to have had opportunities in my life to reconnect with nature and rediscover the freedom and expansiveness associated with it. I must have seen the same old roads and buildings and restaurants of my medium sized suburb a thousand times in my life. However, no experiences have been more memorable and impactful than climbing Whistlers Mountain, or the…

Introduction In our fast paced, modern day world we tend to overlook common day skills that have become routine. Our ability to speak and articulate sets us aside from other mammals and forms of life. With this ability comes a skill that has been crafted and evolved through centuries, this is the ability to write. Interestingly enough, nearly 60,000 years ago, the earliest form of writing was discovered and it was located on eggshells. Better yet is the article’s definition of writing, “the…

The Venus of Willendorf is a fertility goddess. This female goddess is worshiped by the Neolithic woman. This sculptures purpose was to survive from the Paleolithic period. Woman would hold the figure for her power during childbirth to ward off death. The Willendorf figure has no visible face making it concept more than a human. The figure emphasizes on her large breast and her stomach. Her genital looks swollen, perhaps unnatural in order to give her that goddess look. Her arms and her feet…

in popularity. That could leave you wondering what exactly this diet entails. Is it something that you could do and stick with? Will it provide the best results? In order to make that call you have to first understand the purpose of the caveman Paleolithic diet. The caveman diet is called this because it pushes people to go back to the way things were during that time period. Rather than eating foods that are deemed unhealthy and unnatural, the paleo diet meal plan is designed so that people…

Since the beginning of society, humans have taken evolution into their own hands. Humans have used their smarts to adapt to any situation and to meet their needs. You may have noticed, that we’ve met some of our needs a little too well. Our ability to grow and process foods, to make sure everyone is well nourished, has led to a lot of eating that our bodies were not made to digest properly. Currently, 2.1 billion people, nearly a third of the world’s total population, are overweight. From an…

they became farmers, before farmers,the nomads were hunter - gatherer who were people who followed the animals and kill and eat. The nomads had suffered for disease because there wasn’t enough food to their social ranks. It when from the Paleolithic to the Neolithic Revolution, nomads didn’t know they will face hardship in the future constantly. The nomads will be responding on their old skills and strategies on survival. Repeating they move place to place getting improve to the area…

Archaeology is a branch of anthropology which is rebuilds the daily life of people who lived in the past to explain the changing of the culture, and the gender behaviours, roles and attitudes in our culture. Gender archaeology is looking for evidence of gender roles and gender relations to help us understand the values and the relations between the genders in our society and what did each gender do in the past society, and how the society seeing women and men. Gender relations and roles, in all…