HIST 025 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Homo Erectus, Cave Painting, Atlantic Ocean
29 May 2020
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Making tools define this age how did these people live and survive how does this period develop civilization. Textbook definition of civilization: agriculture, herding of animals, cities, specialized labor, writing, trade and cultural interaction, exchanging cultural ideas. We emerged from africa moved west occupied europe then cross. We are focused on western europe and western civilization. Civilization latin word city and polite behavior. Got cities, herding, agriculture, trades, cultural interaction. No written records of prehistoric anthropology. Man descends from monkey 5-7 million years ago. Man came with the making of tools. Humans appeared in africa 400,000 200,000 years ago. Designed and thrived through a good food-supply, reasons and intuition, endurance. Homo sapiens exterminated neanderthals or they have been. Attaching tools together, bones, sticks, rocks, flint weapons, tools, cooking. Stone age 20-30 people in a group. Paleolithic hunter must be robust and fit. Sick, slow, elderly, young animals were targets for humans or pick through remains.
