GEOG 1220 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Lower Paleolithic, Bronze Age, Food Processing

• School: University of Guelph
• Department: Geography
• Course: GEOG 1220
• Professor: Lorne Bennett

Document Summary

Ecological knowledge, general knowledge of our surroundings. Agricultural revolution: types of early societies: lower paleolithic or early stone age (>10 000 years b. p. ) There are still people today who hunt and gather for their food. Our diet back then usually contained as much plant material that was. Scavenging/hunting of animals necessary and as much meat as you could find. Some evidence of early shelter and clothing: the upper paleolithic (~8 500 10 000 years b. p. ) Much more planning involved compared to the lower paleolithic. Manipulative control of wild plant and animal resources. More considered use of fire: neolithic or late stone age (5 000 8 500 years b. p. ) Gradual replacement of wild species and hunter gatherer strategies with domesticated plants and animals. Hunter/gathering became more scientific: bronze age (<5 000 years b. p. ) Environmental impacts of hunting and gathering from early societies: impact of fire. Tasmania: burning beach forest to open up the land.