HUM-2020 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Slavery In Africa, Refugees Of The Syrian Civil War
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Agency: you have the impulse and the authority and ability to do something, this separates humans from other things, we create our agency because we want to control everything. Homo sapiens: common mankind, length of existence varies, thought to be since 20000 years ag. Paleolithic: early phase of the stone age, when primitive stone implements were used. Venus of willendorf: considered oldest piece of art, nude woman figurine, by giving her the name venus, they were giving her meaning, piece was found in willendorf, not meant to be stood up no feet. Possibly meant to be carried, kept in a pocket its fairly small: we really don"t know what is and isn"t true about it, it"s all speculation. Neolithic: start to see rise of agriculture, starts in france and spain, prior to this, people were hunter-gatherers. Stonehenge: we have no idea why or how it"s there, 2750-1500 bce.
