Why Study The Humanities?

Explore earlier cultures to see how they handled their

problems/challenges

Your Challenges

Prehistoric Man

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⬧Their challenges

Response to Challenges

What is Culture

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⬧Definition

Emergence of Early Culture

Prehistoric Man

Ancestors of Man

Ardipithecus Ramidus

Homo Habilis

Homo Erectus

Pre-Modern Humans

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⬧400,000 years ago

Neanderthals

Hunt or Be Hunted

Hunt or Be Hunted-Part Two

Paleolithic Era

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⬧ Technology

⬧ Cave Art

⬧ Three Questions

⬧ Purpose ⬧ Ritual/ceremony

⬧ Shamans

Meaning of Paleolithic Art

⬧ Art

⬧ Sympathetic magic

⬧ Sexual symbolism

⬧ History

⬧ Trophies

⬧ Symbols

⬧ Shamanism

Cave Art/Wall Paintings

Lascaux Cave

SculptureVenus of Willendorf

More Venus Figurines

Le Tuc d’ Audobert

Mesolithic Culture10,000-8000 BCE

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⬧ Planting/Domestication

⬧ Ends nomadism

⬧ Cemeteries

Mesolithic Art-Cingle de la Mola, Spain

Food Revolution

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⬧ Climate change

⬧ Shift from foraging

⬧ Domestication of food

Lithic Ages Video

Neolithic Culture

⬧ Farm communities/villages

⬧ Population pressures

⬧ Technology

⬧ Significance of surpluses?

⬧ Early villages ⬧ Jericho ⬧ Catal Huyuk

Jericho

Catal Huyuk

Stonehenge

Question

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⬧ What are the achievements of the 21st century?

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⬧ Achievements of ancient cultures

Steps in Early Human Evolution

⬧ 4,500,000 BCE-beginnings of bipedalism

⬧ 2,000,000-beginning of stone tools

⬧ 130,000-early language

⬧ 40,000-modern humans

⬧ 25,000-cave paintings

⬧ 10,000-bow and arrow

⬧ 8000-pottery production, farming