Ages (historic periods of time): Difference between revisions

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Known as "periodization", the categorization of periods of time according to general technological characteristics

categories help to characterize periods of time for easy reference
however, these categories are helpful in the general and not the specific applications
- i.e., a period of time may fall into one category, but that does not mean that every population or civilization follows that particular characterization
ex.

Periods
	Paleolithic	Nelolithic	Bronze Age	Iron Age
<12,000 BC	✓+
12,000 BC	✓+	✓-
4,000 BC	✓	✓	✓-
1000 BC	✓-	✓+	✓	✓-
1 AD	✓-	✓-	✓-	✓+

the idea is that while farming may have developed in some places, hunting and gathering continued in most other places, until farming spread everywhere.
so each of these "Ages" or "Periods" existed coincidentally
additionally, social and political organization existed coincidentally within and across each of these periods
for an historic example of a person who lived in three periods at once see Otzi the Iceman

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 * the idea is that while farming may have developed in some places, hunting and gathering continued in most other places, until farming spread everywhere.
 * so each of these "Ages" or "Periods" existed coincidentally
+* additionally, social and political organization existed coincidentally within and across each of these periods
+* for an historic example of a person who lived in three periods at once see [[Otzi the Iceman]]
 == Major periods of human history ==