HIST115 Study Guide - Final Guide: Oldowan, Social Control, Sneferu
5 Dec 2018
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What is technology: for historians, cars, rockets are all products of technology, technology is the standardized process/system that leads to production of products on a mass scale. Invisible technology is a system that utilizes invisible factors such as societal relations to mass produce a product: example: government, education (the product of education are students who come out with the same set of tools) Acheuclean tools / core tools (1. 5 million bc 100,000 bc: the core is the tool; the flakes are garbage, this technology had a notable impact on society. Not only was the process standardized, the product had a predetermined pattern: these tools were larger and could be used for hunting. This meant that more meat was present in the diet. Fire (1 million bc: fire was brought from the wild and domesticated, people discovered that when meat is cooked, it tastes a lot better. This led to more meat consumption and brain development from the meat proteins.
