Political Science 2137 Lecture Notes - Göbekli Tepe, Louise Leakey, Louis Leakey
19 Mar 2014
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Transition from primitive, hunter-gatherer society and cavemen to. Human societies gradually formed in connection with the world. How exactly we get to where we are today. 99% of human history is the history of hunting and gathering societies. Domestication of plants and animals food surpluses permanent settlements. Development of cities rise of religious and military elites. Costs come for the many who provided food for the few and to the ecosystems on which they depended. Very first forms of human life (not homo sapiens) existed about 2 million years ago. Reading: said 7 million years ago, existing human life existed. 99% human history = history of hunting and gathering societies (vast majority of human history) Only past few thousand years that human history has progressed and moved to a more sedentary lifestyle (situated in one place, living off of props and agriculture) People lived in small mobile groups and roamed the earth.
