Paleolithic Hunter Gatherer Societies

Similarities between Paleolithic and modern culture

Bronze: copper and tin together

easier to shape into different things

Timeline Words

Paleolithic

< 6000 BCE

Paleo - old

lithic - rock

Neolithic

Neo - new

2000 BCE

Mesolithic

Meso - between

6000 - 2000 BCE

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Tools

Hand axe

around 5 inches

Multiple uses? (assumption)

Used another more dense rock to form the hand axe

can use for digging

Diet

around 16 000 years ago, harvesting started

Society

around 20-50 people working together in one "group"

Similarities between Paleolithic and modern culture

certain foods can only be found by seasons

fruits

vegetables

religious beliefs

afterlife

burial

made tools and shelters

marrying a person of a different ethnicity or "group"

had settlements

is comparing earlier cultures to now a valid approach to understanding earlier societies?

may help with putting the pieces together of how we came to be where we are now

I do not think that it would be helpful in providing essential details of how culture/society was like in earlier years

Stone tools could be used as artifacts to better understand paleolithic societies

so important that paleolithic periods were named after the progression of tools

Lower Paleolithic, Upper Paleolithic, Mesolithic (Middle Stone Age), and Neolithic (New Stone Age).

scientists believe there was a division of labor and resources

inferred by cave paintings and comparing to modern hunter gatherer societies

cave art depicts/is interpreted as group hunting

agriculture is one of the things that makes humans, human

also language