GEOG 1220 Chapter Notes - Chapter 16: Open-Pit Mining, Pleistocene, Lower Paleolithic
12 Oct 2015
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Early humans: the hunter-gatherers: 99% of of our time on earth has been as hunter-gatherers. 10,000 years has there been changes: b. p = before present. Lower palaeolithic/early stone age: diet consisted mostly of plant material and as much animal flesh that could be captured, tools were made out of bone (deer, elephants, rhinoceroses, beavers, bison) or stone. The what and where of transition 1: the agricultural transformation required the domestication of flora and fauna (plants and animals, the increase in food production allowed people to do multiple jobs (pottery, administration, and warfare) Smaller horns where they would normally reflect dominance. The industrial revolution: transition 2: the stages of industrialization are characterized by, increasing extraction, processing and use of a variety of resources, changing technologies designed to produce and exchange more goods and services more efficiently. Medieval great britain: land was cleared to make room for sheep farming, efforts were made by some people to try and protect the forests.
