Ch.1
8/30/17
Chapter one starts off by explaining how Homosapiens began their trek into Eurasia, Australia, and the Islands of the Pacific. I knew about the Ice age, but I never thought of it as an advantage. Because if the Ice Age, there were ice bridges that connected the lands. Homosapiens crossed them and thats why we are where we are today because of that! During their journey to new lands, they shared many traditions and items with others along the way, and thats how people very first started to connect.
Another thing I found really interesting was about the Clovis culture. They were highly into hunting Mammoths, but when the Clovis people were extinct, so were the Mammoths. Why? Did they kill them all and have no food? Another connection to animal extinction is when the people move to the pacific, the animals around them in the area went extinct within a century of them living in their new place. Were the paleothic societies hunting too much? Sounds like they hunted all the food around them.
Something that caught my attention was that in these societies, men and women were pretty equal. There were no kings or queens or rulers, so the people were actually free. They were just restricted by nature. The book said that women gathered plants that was 70% of their work/meals and the men gathered the meat which was 30% of the work/meal. Men and women craved good realtionships and even though you could have more than one wife, most didnt. They just craved good solid realtionships. And if they werent good, they were allowed to divorce without a problem. I thought this was really interesting because today when we think about it, divorce is now really common but looked down upon. Also women aren't recognized for the same amounts as men as they use to so easily in the paleolithic societies.
Later, when men/women settled down more in larger groups, they started to put a strain on the enviornments around them because there was so many people. This goes back to the ideas in the second paragraph where the clovis people were extinct because they used up all the animals and resources around them.
These were the main ideas.
8/30/17
Chapter one starts off by explaining how Homosapiens began their trek into Eurasia, Australia, and the Islands of the Pacific. I knew about the Ice age, but I never thought of it as an advantage. Because if the Ice Age, there were ice bridges that connected the lands. Homosapiens crossed them and thats why we are where we are today because of that! During their journey to new lands, they shared many traditions and items with others along the way, and thats how people very first started to connect.
Another thing I found really interesting was about the Clovis culture. They were highly into hunting Mammoths, but when the Clovis people were extinct, so were the Mammoths. Why? Did they kill them all and have no food? Another connection to animal extinction is when the people move to the pacific, the animals around them in the area went extinct within a century of them living in their new place. Were the paleothic societies hunting too much? Sounds like they hunted all the food around them.
Something that caught my attention was that in these societies, men and women were pretty equal. There were no kings or queens or rulers, so the people were actually free. They were just restricted by nature. The book said that women gathered plants that was 70% of their work/meals and the men gathered the meat which was 30% of the work/meal. Men and women craved good realtionships and even though you could have more than one wife, most didnt. They just craved good solid realtionships. And if they werent good, they were allowed to divorce without a problem. I thought this was really interesting because today when we think about it, divorce is now really common but looked down upon. Also women aren't recognized for the same amounts as men as they use to so easily in the paleolithic societies.
Later, when men/women settled down more in larger groups, they started to put a strain on the enviornments around them because there was so many people. This goes back to the ideas in the second paragraph where the clovis people were extinct because they used up all the animals and resources around them.
These were the main ideas.
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