Prehistory recap

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Prehistory recap
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Prehistory

• History from the first hominids (5,000,000) to
  the invention of writing (3,000 BCE).
• A long period significant cultural developments
  are only 30,000 years old.

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Timeline

• Stone Age
• Paleolithic (2,500,000- 10,000 BCE)
• Mesolithic (10,000 8,000 BCE)
• Neolithic (8,000 BCE- 3,000 BCE)
• Landmarks
• 2,500,000 first stone implements
• 8,000 BCE agriculture and animal husbandry
• 3,000 BCE writing and metallurgy

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Paleolithic

• Stone implements
• Hunter gatherers
• Nomadic
• Cave paintings (ritual? descriptive, realistic)
• Female statuettes (fertility goddesses?)

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Neolithic

• Agriculture
• Permanent settlements
• Paintings human figures, interaction, narrative.
• Metallurgy and writing at the end.
• Middle East first towns
• West Megalithic monuments (slower development)