1. Human Origins & Culture

2. What Makes Us Human?
The most likely explanation for hominids becoming bipedal involves the need for freeing up the hands for something — carrying simple tools (sticks, stones and other found objects), food or water.

4. Early Paleolithic
Fire!
Upper Paleolithic
Middle Paleolithic

5. Nomadic Hunters/Gatherers
Food gatherers as opposed to food producers
Nomadic – roaming from place to place looking for resources
95% of human existence people were hunters/gatherers

6. “Ice Man” (Bronze Age) https://www. youtube. com/watch

7. “neo” = new “lithic”=stone
Neolithic Revolution
Shift from hunting/gathering to plant/animal cultivation about 12,000 years ago
“neo” = new “lithic”=stone
Various Locations:
Fertile Crescent
Egypt
Indus Valley
China
the Americas

8. Independent Origins of Agriculture
Origin of Domestication for Selected Plants
Independent Origins of Agriculture
wheat
10,500 ybp
maize
4,200 ybp
rice
7,000 ybp
millet
4,000 ybp
manioc
4,200 ybp

9. Cultural Changes of the Neolithic: https://www. youtube. com/watch
-Settling Down (instead of being nomadic)
-Domestication of plants and animals
Agriculture (sedentary agricultural communities)
Technological Changes (use of metal for tools)
Use of writing
Urbanization (cities)
Labor specialization (certain people doing certain jobs)
Long-distance trade
Political Systems

10. Why Did Agriculture Develop?
Domestication Process: change from wild plant or animal to a “crop” through
-Cultivation (management)
-Use of artificial selection

11. http://channel. nationalgeographic

12. Mayan glyphs
Cuneiform