ANTH 2 Lecture Notes - Lecture 8: Neolithic, Times New Roman, Rising Star Cave
29 Aug 2020
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Found in rising star cave, south africa. What came fist, bidpedalism or big brains: big brains. Due monday feb. 1 by 5pm upload to assignments . Format: times new roman, 12 font, i inch margin, double spaced. The neolithic: the origin of farming and domestication. Pleistocene epoch; (2. 5 mya to 11 kya) Paleolithic era, the old stone age, from 11kya to 7kya. The end of the last ice age. The beginning of agriculture and complex society. Innovation: primary: inventing the wheel , secondary: hooking the wheels to make a cart . What motivated people to settle down and produce their own food: changing climate, plants, animals, and environments, humans are intelligent, innovation, the diffusion of ideas. Was this a rapid change: no, took place over a period of time; gradual development; not a single human lifetime. The right kinds of people: the mental ability to plan ahead and understand complex processes.
