1. WHAPPING Period 1.1 Big Geography and the Peopling of the Earth
Technological and Environmental Transformations
to c. 600 B.C.E.

2. An Experiment:
What Resources Are Available to the Researcher?
Autumn, 2018, a journalist for the Detroit Free Press does a story on the UAIS.
A historian from the year 2080 writes a history of the UAIS’s early years.
After discovering and excavating the ruins of the UAIS, a Chinese historian from the year 3000 decides to research education in the early 21st century United States.

3. 1.1: Big Geography and the Peopling of the Earth
Paleolithic humans migrate from East Africa to Eurasia, Australia, and the Americas.
Early humans demonstrate mobility and creativity as they adapt to different geographical settings.
Early humans develop varied and sophisticated technologies.

4. 1.1.I: Archeological evidence indicates that during the Paleolithic era, hunting-foraging bands of humans gradually migrated from their origin in East Africa to Eurasia, Australia, and the Americas, adapting their technology and cultures to new climate regions.
Be sure to know
East Africa, Eurasia, Australia, and the Americas (on the map)
Paleolithic tools and technology
the general socio-economic relationships of Paleolithic peoples

6. Afroeurasia (Afro-Eur-Asia)
Eastern and Russia
Europe
Western
Europe
Afroeurasia (Afro-Eur-Asia)
Australia

8. How Do We Know? Archeology
Empirical Evidence + Experience + Faith + Imagination

9. Paleolithic Tools

11. Vocab?

12. After Grog dropped his first mixtape, Paleolithic humans learned to control fire.
This changed eating habits, tool-making, and life after dark.

14. Changes and Continuities?

15. Hunter-Gatherers Migratory / Nomadic Loose political structures
No real social classes
Different gender relations
Polytheistic religion
Limited technology

16. Small groups of hunter-foragers roamed the Earth’s regions, interacting with the environment and with each other. They exchanged people, ideas, and goods. Like us, they were artistic, innately social, and curious.

17. Cave Art

18. Head of a woman known as the "Venus of Brassempouy" -Gravettian (c
Head of a woman known as the "Venus of Brassempouy" -Gravettian (c. 27,000 BC) Mamouth tusk Brassempouy (Landes, Frances) Saint-Germain-en-Laye, Musée des Antiquites nationales Plazy, History of Art in Pictures, p Art such as this takes time and skill. And think of the tools available 29,000 years ago!

19. Fertility Goddesses
Paleolithic Idol

20. They buried and mourned their dead.