HIS101H5 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Blombos Cave, Rock Art, Stone Age
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For many years humankind sustained life successfully by gathering wild foods and scavenging. People labeled as paleolithic because they used stone tools. Hunters and gatherers: food collectors instead of food producers. Paleolithic art: rock art of gathering and hunting peoples has been found in. Around 12000 years ago eurasia, africa and america practiced the deliberate cultivation of plants and domestication of animals. Agricultural/neolithic (new stone age) revolution: technological breakthrough, began to domesticate animals and cultivate plants deliberately. 200 000-250 000 homo sapiens emerged in eastern and southern africa. Africa not excavated very much, we know little. Technological innovations: stone blades, and points fastened to shafts replaced. Evidence of hunting and fishing, planned seasonal movements. Body ornaments, beads, pigments such as ochre, as well as planned burials show social and symbolic behavior. Blombos cave: found ochre, earliest evidence of human activity. Between 100 000 to 60 000 years ago people began to trek out of africa.
