HUMA 1770 Lecture Notes - Lecture 7: Animal Worship, Land Bridge, Pastoralism
11 Apr 2018
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Migration is the general movement by humans from one locality to another, sometimes over long distances or in large groups. Homo sapiens: colonized all of africa about 150,000 years ago, moved out of africa 70,000 years ago. Spread across australia, asia and europe by 40,000 years ago: migration to the americas took place 20,000 to 15,000 years ago, 2,000 years ago, most of the pacific islands were colonized. Impact of the ice age: well-watered comparatively lush forests and grasslands, the latter especially capable of supporting animal life including deer, bison, hairy elephants and other large game, land bridge formations. Paleolithic age (old stone era: refers to most of the first five million years of our global evolution, human conduct shaped by drive to satisfy needs. Signs of paleolithic religious practices include animal worship and the burying of the dead: additionally, paleolithic peoples developed sophisticated non-verbal means of expressing themselves or symbolic communication: Statues: cave paintings, monuments, 10,000 3,500 bce.
