Paleolithic Period (jan 1, 2498000 BC – jan 1, 8000 BC)
Description:
Location: Everywhere
S:
-Hunter-Forager Society
-nuclear family->kinship group->clan->tribe
-tribe was formed for group hunting +mutual defense against enemies (lead by priests and chiefs)
-Egalitarian: Man--hunt, warfare, heavy labor Women--gathered and prepared food, looked after children
P:
I:
-Adapted to the environment that they were exposed to
-tropics: nets for fishing; cooler regions: scrapers for cleaning flesh off animals' skins (for warmth)
-stone and bone tools: spears, bows, arrows, fishhooks, harpoons, clay pots
C:
-believed that river, animals, other elements of nature embodied spirits (animism)
-believed shamans possessed special abilities to cure the sick and influence the future
-ritual practices to gods and evidence of burial practices ->belief in afterlife (dates back 100,000 years)
-cave paintings date back 32,000 years
-musical instruments like flutes date back 30,000 years (for religious ceremonies)
E:
-traded clothes and tools
-also traded people in order to balance out the size of the groups
-religion, new info about world, methods for making tools spread due to trade
Inventions:
Control of Fire:
-light allowed them to see better when sun went down, heat to live in cooler climates, protection against animals, smoke to pacify bees (for honey), hunting by chasing animals for cliffs
Vocab:
Paleolithic Period - early years of human history; began 2.5 million years ago, ended 10,000 years ago -known for stone tools and weapons
kinship group - several hunter-forager families that moved together in search of food
clan - a larger group of multiple kinship groups
tribe - multiple clans combined into a larger group
patriarchal society - a society dominated by men
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