CS100 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Middle Paleolithic, Neolithic, Quipu
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Tool use - tools are any object that helps us accomplish something that we could not accomplish on our own. The stone ages: paleo to neolithic (dates differ by location: middle palaeolithic, 60,000 to 25,000 bc, neanderthals, hunter / gatherers, nomads, upper paleo and mesolithic: Crops and/or animals: neolithic age, 10,200 - 8899 bce, beginning of serious farming, neanderthals places flowers at a grave site: First time a tool was used outside of immediate result. Use of tool to express feeling, and engage in a communal culture practice before they knew logical informational knowledge of the world. Notched bones: notches on bones were used to keep track of things: ex) day and moon cycles, how many cattle they have, etc. We no not know exactly what they were counting with tallies. A symbol is anything which is shorthand for anything less. ex) meaningful tattoo.
