1. Technological and Environmental Transformations, to 600 B.C.E.

2. Key Concept 1.1 Big Geography and Peopling of the Earth
Paleolithic Period: Human migrate from East Africa to Eurasia, Australia, and the Americas
Anthropologists infer that the early people were egalitarian.
They used fire in new ways – What ways?
New tools – Why?
Environments from Tundra to Tropics
Small kinship groups of hunter-foragers

3. Key Concept 1.2 The Neolithic Revolution and Early Agricultural Societies
10,000 years ago – Neolithic Revolution
Permanent agricultural villages – why?
Climate Change
Pastoralism in the grasslands of Afro-Eurasia
Cooperative work, especially for water control systems and clearing land
What kind of impact does this have on the environment? Good/Bad? Why?

4. 1.2 cont Agriculture and Pastoralism transform human societies
More reliable and abundance food supplies, pop ↑
Specialization of labor/new classes
Improvements in production, trade, and transport
Pottery
Wheels
Beginnings of the Patriarchy
What does the patriarchy look like?
Why does this happen?

5. From the perspective of
Patriarchy
From the perspective of
THE STATE
Women are unlikely to have formal power and representation
THE HOUSEHOLD
Women are more likely to do the housework and raise children
VIOLENCE
Women are more prone to being abused
PAID WORK
Women are likely to be paid less
From Sociology Sylvia Walby