1. A Cold Hard Look at Culture
Lesson 2.6
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2. Where do we live? How can we live there? Extreme hot? Extreme cold?
Dry places?
Wet places?
How can we live there?

3. Vocabulary Cultural adaptation/Cultural evolution Artifact
Ability to develop behaviors and technologies that permit humans to cope with new situations in non-biological ways.
Artifact
Materials remains

5. How might the iceman use it?
Artifact
How might the iceman use it?
Grass cape
Quiver and arrows
Low bow
Flints
Cap
Grass insulation
Copper-bladed ax
Birch fungus

20. Artifacts 6. Choose 2 of the following questions
What might the bow, arrows and arrowheads indicate about his way of life?
What might the copper-bladed axe indicate about his culture?
What can you tell from the bits of wheat present?
What might the different markings on his body indicate?

21. If you could have 3 more pieces of evidence or 3 more bits of information to help you complete your understanding of the Iceman, what would you want them to be? Explain.

22. Analysis
What particular physical feature of the Iceman would you compare with modern humans if you were looking for evidence of biological evolution? Explain.
What artifacts would you compare to modern humans as evidence of cultural evolution?
Do you think there have been greater changes physically or culturally in humans the last 5,000 years? Explain your answer.