SOC250Y1 Lecture : Lec 8 Outline of World Religious History
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Make use of textbook *chapter 2 & 3. Phase one: prehistory (the time before writing, emergence of our species) Human evolution: australopithecines (~4 million years before the present) homo habilis (handy/skilled) (~2. 5 million years bp) erectus = standing up, developing bipedalism, brain enlargement, declining sexual dimorphism in body size, limb proportions, jaw, teeth, lips, tongue, etc. Tools, language, hunting & gathering (this is what we become after human evolution) Africa and big migration move to other continents, specifically into eurasia then across barring"s into. Mesolithic era, c. 10,000 to 7,000 cultivation, done in conjunction with hunting and gathering but the critical turning point is the following: first major towns: catalhoyuk, jericho, etc. - this is when human populations actually. Neolithic era, c. 7,000 to 3,500 = settled agriculture, domestication of plants and animals, pottery, wheeled carts settle down, agriculture dominates over hunting and gathering.
