GEOG 2300- Final Exam Guide - Comprehensive Notes for the exam ( 26 pages long!)

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Cultural geography and the study of place, space, and identity. Cultural evolution: dire(cid:272)tly related to hu(cid:373)a(cid:374) e(cid:448)olutio(cid:374) a(cid:374)d hu(cid:373)a(cid:374)(cid:859)s capacity to use and create tools, stone tools fire bone tools, cave paintings, shell jewels, use or bone, horn, and ivory. I(cid:374)sight to the (cid:449)ay people li(cid:448)ed, the (cid:449)ay they hu(cid:374)ted, et(cid:272) : evidence of a successful community, leaving behind evidence of existence for others, ex. Johannesburg, south africa: first evidence of burial caves, conscious effort to prevent the body from returning back to the earth, flowers with burial tombs, symbolism. Factors determining culture includes use of tools, communal sense of being, higher level of thinking. Allowed people to survive in their environment. Organize social units to make searching for food more successful. Preserve and share traditions and knowledge: growing food, water sources, fire building, hunting, gathering, forging, finding materials, crafting. Ideas passed down by demonstration, storytelling, writing, and painting.

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