Friday Notes: Paleolithic and Neolithic Era

Jose Betancourt

World History 1

Dr. Andrews

09/18/12

                                    Friday Notes: Paleolithic and Neolithic Era

1.)   It was about 20,000 thousand years ago we, the homosapiens evolved. According to some scholars about 10,000 thousand years later the last ice age occurred. Towards the end of the ice age many ice bridges formed (Bering strait). Through ice bridges is that many of our ancestors crossed to the new land. Their basic food were sea animals, which was the basic nutrition they had. Similarly there were other band of humans migrating to Asia, Australia, and the pacific islands. It also said that Homo sapiens out competed all other species. Like the homfabilis, Homo erectus and many others. The main reason we outcompeted them was because we had a bigger brain and we could stand on two legs and use the two hands to aid us.

2.)   After that we developed basic stone tools to aid us for hunting. During the Neolithic era there were advanced tools. Different types of knives, some to cut raw meat, and others o hunt. Some others to protect the band fro other bands.

3.)   On the Paleolithic era there were people who lived in bands, moving form one place to another, surviving and learning how to be more productive. Late on during the Neolithic times, there were agricultural communities formed. The agricultural communities are said to be formed maybe after the last ice age. The reason for that idea is that the ground was probably more fertile after the ice melted completely. The rain also aided the land and now one knows what happened to change the paradigm.