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| Three types of historical records |
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| artificats, remains, fossils |
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| Mostly studies artifacts to learn about the past; also study fossils & remains of people & animals; interested in “Big Picture” of history |
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a. Study fossils & remains to see what people looked like
b. Study primitive people today to see what early people may have been like
c. Concerned with “everyday life” of people |
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| Not as interested in people; finds out what earth was like in prehistory |
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| Doesn’t study prehistoric man; Mostly studies time long before man. Studies old fossils. |
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| a small piece of land, once under water, that connects two larger land masses. |
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| Paleolithic (“Old Stone”) Age |
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*Named for tools & weapons used
* Man completely depended on herding animals
*Ate their meat
* Used skins for clothes & tents
*Used bones for additional tools
*Also ate gathered plants
*Most important weapons: barbed harpoon & atlatl (spear thrower |
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| Mesolithic Age ( Middle Stone Age) |
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Mesolithic (“Middle Stone”) Age
*Ice age is beginning to end
* Plants become a more important source of food
* People stay in one place longer
* Culture slowly becomes more advanced due to more free time
* Develop flint tools/weapons
*Bow & arrow invented
* But . . . People are still nomads and still hunters & gatherers |
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| Neolithic (“New Stone”) Age |
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Ice Age is finally ending
*New tools (traps & plows) invented
* Agricultural Revolution: hunters & gatherers become farmers!
* Farming means people don’t have to gather plants
* Domestication means people don’t have to hunt animals
* Development of bronze (mix of tin & copper) signals end of Stone Ages |
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| Bartering is a medium in which goods or services are directly exchanged for other goods and/or services, without the use of money. ... |
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| making something suitable for a special purpose; |
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| QUANITY MUCH LARGER THAN NEEDED |
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| WHAT WAS THE ARGICULTURAL REVOLUTION? |
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| Agricultural Revolution: hunters & gatherers become farmers! Some limited farming techniques developed; idea of storing food developed; small areas of population became concentrated in one specific area; planting crops to eat |
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