NEST 319 Lecture 4: Lecture 4 Notes
20 Dec 2018
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Prehistory of the near east: lead-up to the neolithic"s era and the origins of. Time framework for the prehistoric near east --> some of the terms used to measure time. Geological time --> based on geological, climatic processes (back about a million years ago in terms of the middle east) Pleistocene epoch: began 1. 6 million years ago and lasted till 10 thousand years ago (bp: before present, essentially estimations), the first signs of humans in the middle east. The most important event was major glaciations (or ice. Ice ages: these last thousands of years, float around the arctic and cover much of the near east as well as. Also leads to melting and the earth would eventually warm up again. Holocene: most recent epoch, began 10 thousand years ago to our current day, also notes the beginning of the neolithic era.
