The Beginning
of CivilizationsBy: Taylor
10/14th/10
Sto
ne A
ge T
ools
The earliest stone tool
making was at least 2.6
million years ago. The
Early Stone Age includes
the most basic stone
toolkits made by early
humans. The basic toolkit,
including lots of novel
forms of stone core, continued to be made. I
learned that they made
toolkits about 2.6 million
years ago and used them
for hunting, and cooking.
Agri
cult
ura
l Revo
luti
on
The agricultural revolution was
a period of agricultural
development between the 18th
century and the end of the 19th
century, which saw a large and
rapid increase in agricultural
productivity and big
improvements in farm
technology. Between the eighth
century and the eighteenth, the
tools of farming basically
stayed the same and few
advancements in technology. I
learned that the agricultural
revolution was about farming.
Cave
Pain
ting
Cave Paintings consists of engraved or
painted works on open air rocks or on
the floors, walls and ceilings of caves,
some of them in deep. They were
created during the Upper Paleolithic
period (40,000 to 10,000 BC), and the
best were done by what we call the
Magdalene nians people who
flourished in Europe from 18,000 to
10,000 BC. Such works have a unity,
and can be described as the
Magdalenian art system, the first in
human history. It was also the longest,
lasting for more than two thirds of the
total time when humans have
produced art. I learned that the
caveman and cavewomen were trying
to express themselves and tell us
what they did.
Mig
rati
on o
f M
an
Early human migrations began
when Homo erectus first migrated
out of Africa over the Levantine
corridor and Horn of Africa to
Eurasia about 1.8 million years
ago, a migration probably sparked
by the development of language.
Erectus out of Africa was followed
by that of Homo antecessor into
Europe around 800,000 years ago,
followed by Homo heidelbergensis
around 600,000 years ago, where
they probably evolved to become
the Neanderthals. I learned that
men traveled all the time to
different places for different reasons.