SOCA03Y3 Chapter Notes - Chapter 5: Homo Erectus, Ethnocentrism, Downtown Eastside
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Complex collection of values, beliefs, behaviours, and material objects shared by a group and passed on from one generation to the next. Little material evidence survives over long period of time. Much of culture is nonmaterial -> cannot be preserved for future generations to study. Many of the developments that enabled our ancestors to become cultural were interconnected and integral for the emergence of culture. This happened during homo erectus 2. 9 million years ago: pair-bonding: attachment of male to female occurred 2. 4 1. 9 million years ago. More dependent offspring -> greater need to secure food and protect the young: subsistence: acquiring and distributing food. Farming: 10,000 years ago: environmental adaptation: use of caves: 800,000 years ago. Sewing clothes: 30,000 years ago: thought, language, art, and religion: oldest piece of art: 250,000 years ago. 5 defining features: culture is learned, culture is shared, culture is transmitted, culture is cumulative, culture is human.