CS100 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Neolithic, Hyksos, Rebus
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Cs 100 - a: lecture: monday, september 25th: The use of tools is what makes humanity so unique. We have dominated the earth because of tools. Placement of flowers around dead body, was the first example of not productive use of tools, and the expression of spirituality. Middle paleolithic: 60,000 to 25,000 bce, neanderthals, hunter/gatherers and nomads. Upper paleo & mesolithic: 28,000-10,000 bce: beginning of domestication of crops and/or animals. Neolithic age: 10,200-8800 bce: beginning of serious farming. Tallies: first data processing , notched bones and pebbles, first step to storing concrete information, some say it stored concepts, some say it stored data. Human need to express emotion came before the need to understand what was going on in the world. Symbol: is anything which is shorthand for anything else. Sign: has a narrow precise unambiguous meaning. The age where we start to see stratification, class stratifications.
