PSYC 2000 Chapter : Chapter 1 Outline
Document Summary
Neolithic age: "new stone age" a long period of revolutionary change lasting from about 10,000-3000. Bce in which many thousand of years of human interaction with nature led to food production through agriculture and the domestication of animals. Food production led humans to develop new communities-then civilization itself. Civilization depended on constant interaction among communities that lived far apart. Once settled in a region, people began trading for what was not available to them. Trade routes over long distances and interaction among diverse peoples proliferated, ideas and technology spread. Culture: anthropologist use this term to describe the all the different ways that humans collectively adjust to their environment, organize their experiences, and transmit their knowledge to future generations. Civilization: an urban culture with differentiated levels of wealth, occupation, and power. In early civilization 4 kinds of power-military, economic, political, and religious-converged: making civilization possible: the food-producing revolution. These early people scavenged for world foods and followed migrating herds of animals.
