Geography 2156B Lecture 3: 2
10 Feb 2020
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Relatively stable global climate, rise of agriculture about 10,000 yrs ago. At this time, 5 million people on earth. Neolithic: for most of our evolutionary & modern history as species. Pleistocene: many glacial-interglacial cycles & modern humans lived through 1 major glacial advance. Affects spread of humans on a world scale. Paleolithic ( so called old stone age, ancient cultural stage, or level, of human development, characterized by the use of rudimentary chipped stone tools) & neolithic (later part of the stone. Age, when ground or polished stoned weapons & implements prevailed) are more major periods in human development. Pleistocene megafauna extinctions? even at very low population dens. , paleolithic hunters drove extinction of several lrg mammalian ppl. The coliseum had a great appetite for animals, would be use for animal fighting. Transported great distances tortured & killed in service of roman spectacles. Big popu decline, but not driven to extinction (lions, leopards, bears, hippos, rhinos etc)
