Paleolithic

Paleolithic = "old" (paleo) "stone" (lithic)

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Language

• developed during Cro Magnum >> ??

Paleolithic Technology

Fire

• development
• uses
  • protection
  • hardening tools
  • food presevation
  • honey collecting

Fishing Techniques

• Fishing doesn't start until Cro-Magnm >> verify
• requires nets, baits
• boats

Calendars & Math

• See here for Paleolithic Tally Sticks
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Art & Religion

cave painting

• ocurs across prehistoric inhabitation
  • see Cave Painting entry at wikipeida for description and dates across the world
• techniques
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• purpose
  • theories of art or communication
  • art or ritual theory
    • to assist in the hunt (ritual)
  • communication & economic function
    • survival tool
      • animal populations, especially herd animals, varied periodically
    • cave paintings to communicate crucial information
    • caves as place for exchange and information for periodic gatherings or for those passing through at different times, and marking place and time
      • pictured animals not necessarily the type hunted at the cave location suggests communication and education role
      • migratory birds depicted
      • exaggeration of antlers and fatty parts in depictions suggests informational purpose
    • economic theory supported by disappearance of cave painting with climate warming and ecological change that led from reliance on migratory herd kill of Ice Age tundra period to woodland and warming period animal dispersal and abundance
    • reference: Mithen, Steven, "After the Ice" pp. 148-149

Modern Examples

• North Sentinelese Islanders
  • see article "Stone Age tribe kills fishermen who strayed on to island," London Telegraph, Feb 8, 2006
• traditional societies of the Upper Nile: notes from "The Wild River" video
  • Morsi
    • herders & hunter-gatherers
    • semi-sendentary
    • lip tattooing and earlobe stretching
    • social solidarity & common purpose
• Avandi
  • slash & burn technology
  • lifestyle persistence for 20,000 years
• Samburu
  • warriors: drink cow milk and camel blood
  • use beads to measure value of cattle
  • herding
• Dinkas:
  • "people of the cow"
  • social structures built around cattle
  • names, values,
  • only slaughter cattle for sacrifice
  • social structures
    • ceremonies

External Articles

• Journey of Mankind: animated time-map of spread of modern humans from 160,000 BC to 12,000 BC. Excellent visual teaching tool!
• NOAA Modern Human Timeline
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See Also

• Cro-Magnon Man
• Mesolithic
• Neolithic
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