First Peoples; First Farmers Most of History in a Single Chapter

Hadza Homeland

Hadza Culture Culture=a people’s unique way of life Paleolithic v. Neolithic 95% of history, Hunting and Gathering peoples Scavenging dead animals? What ways could you survive if you lived in early Paleolithic cultures? Why can’t you return after the Neolithic Agricultural Revolution (Farmin)? Hadza Culture

Paleolithic Age Deliberate planting of seeds Domestication of plants Domestication of animals The last 6,000 years “Real” History v Pre History Scientists & Historians: Archeologists, Biologists, Botanists, Demographers, Linguists, Anthropologists Paleolithic Age

Out of Africa Theory Homo sapiens 200,000-250,000 years ago? Early tools? Seasonal movement? Networks of Human Communication? Social and Symbolic Behavior? Moving out of Africa, 100,000-60,000 years ago Ice Age, 20,000 years ago, challenges? Out of Africa Theory

Blombos Cave (South Africa)

Maps of Movement

Into Eurasia Route? Food sources? Tools? Evidence of them being there? New Technologies? Dwellings? Temporary Permanent Settlements? Religious iconology? Into Eurasia

Into Australia Route? New technology to get there? Food sources? Dreamtime? Trade? Into Australia

Pituri

Dreamtime

Into Americas Routes? Theories? Clovis? Extinct American animals? Theories for end of Clovis? Later food sources? Into Americas

Into the Pacific Last Phase of the Great Human Migration Oceangoing canoes? Navigation skills? Austronesian language family? Madagascar link? Last of the major islands to be occupied? Aotearoa Agriculture? Societal Structure? Into the Pacific