Neolithic: The Tools Used In Farming

Political, economic, and social conditions have often led to turning points that have changed the course of history for nations and people. The Paleolithic Era and Neolithic Revolution was a turning point that changed the orbit of history for mankind. In Documents 1, 2, and 4, they explain life before the Neolithic Revolution and what changed during the period and provide an analysis of results of the revolution. They introduce food supply and settlement, and civilization and trade.

“Trauma is a fact of life. It does not, however, have to be a life sentence.” - Peter A. Levine, Ph.D. In Sherman Alexie’s collection of short stories, The Lone Ranger and Tonto Fistfight in Heaven, we read stories of Native American struggles for survival in an American society designed to keep Native Americans locked in the cycle of intergenerational trauma. Alexie illustrates the importance of rejecting intergenerational trauma as a method of survival, by isolating the two main causes intergenerational trauma becomes inescapable and giving examples that showcase the impact of attempting to survive the cycle. Through the interpretation of multiple sources, it becomes clear that the inescapability of intergenerational trauma is the outcome of internalized oppression and pessimism.

Although weapons have had major effect in society in the past and the present, I think that tools were more important in creating communities that led to civilization. Since the Paleolithic Age, humans used tools for hunting and obtaining their food source. They also used a variety of other tools, such as: stone tools for cleaning animal hides, spears for catching fish, and needles for sewing clothes. Tools could also have been used to make art. Tools also had an important impact in the Neolithic Revolution. Humans used stone axes to clear trees for farming, which had an important effect in the transition from a hunter-gatherer lifestyle to an agricultural way of life. Additionally, tools helped communities advance into civilization because

Culturally responsive classrooms are important in our schools because we are a culturally diverse society. There is a relationship between culturally responsive classrooms, inclusive education, and specialized instruction. When teachers provide a culturally responsive classroom, this in turn creates an inclusive environment for students of all cultures. Additionally, being culturally sensitive, responsive, and inclusive within the classroom will help teachers provide specialized instruction for culturally diverse students. Culture plays a large role in a student’s behavior and academic performance (Lerner & Johns, 2015). Ignoring one’s culture, and essentially their identity, could cause problems with students who are from a different culture

Characteristics of the Paleolithic Age – Some characteristics of the Paleolithic Age include hunting and gathering methods and living in small groups. Also using stone tools and living a nomadic lifestyle. There were four different type of stone tools used including pebbles, hand axes, flakes and pebbles. They would not plant any vegetables or grains but hunted for berries and roots in the wild. They would also fish in streams like we still do today.

Amy, I agree with you that the division of labor between men and women in the Neolithic is based on the differences of their body types, not on cultural differences as it is based today. I also liked how you mentioned that women were the caretakers of the children and women tend to be better multitaskers then men, probably due to practice not an innate ability. Therefore, they would be better suited to watch the children while grinding grain then the men. In addition, they would have to breast feed the children and that is something that only women could do, although in today times men are trying to lactate, so even that is changing in our society.

According to the article, Jared Diamond refutes the view that the human race is better placed because communities embraced agriculture about 10,000 years ago. Accordingly, in ‘The Worst Mistake in the History of the Human Race’, Diamond explains his point of view by showing that archaeological findings have proven that civilization was worsened after the Neolithic Revolution as it gave rise to inequality and people became less healthy. By using the account of Bushmen and the Hadza nomads from Tanzania, Diamond argues that the lives of primitive people improved with the adoption of farming instead of gathering, but goes ahead to challenge this assumption.

The crops and animals that were developed or domesticated during the Neolithic Revolution include wheat, barley, sheep, goats, pigs, cattle, sorghum, yams, okra, black-eyed peas, rice, millet, soybeans, chicken, water buffaloes, taro, yams, coconut, breadfruit, bananas, citrus fruit, maize, beans, peppers, squashes, tomatoes, manioc, sweet potatoes, llamas, alpacas, mammoths, mastodons, and horses.Farmers spent most of their time dedicated to cultivating the plants. This was an adjustment because hunter-gathering roughly only took four hours out of their day. Men began to domesticate animals instead of hunting, while women cultivated plants. They also began to to track the patterns of the weather and when the different seasons to place which

What is the Neolithic Revolution? Well, we are going to discuss it if you are asking, I am going to make sure that it is my job to inform you about it.The Neolithic Revolution is the spread of farming{agriculture} throughout the world.We are going to be discussing the three main details of, the domestication of animals, how the Neolithic Revolution came to be, and how the hunter-gatherers went from farming to hunter-gathering. The first topic we are going to discuss is how hunter-gathering went on to farming{agriculture}.

Neolithic age was the start of many accomplishments for early humans. It was revolutionary because it was the transition from nomadic to a sedentary way of life. They went from hunter-gathering to food producing communities. On top of that, they domesticated wild animals, produced stone tools and weapons, as well as mud or brick dwellings. Food production alone made it groundbreaking because they started to from more sophisticated ways of life. This also included more cultured social organizations.

All throughout history, humans have come up with innovations that have brought both positive and negative changes to the way people live. This all started around 10,000 BCE, when people developed agriculture. The first nomads started off by moving from place to place, hunting and gathering food… but as people developed agriculture, they saved a lot more time. After agriculture developed, the humans learned many things such as farming and taming wild animals for their own use. This time in history was called the Neolithic Revolution… which lasted about 6,000 years, until 4,000 BCE. The big change in the way people got their food and how they lived, resulted to positive and negative changes of human innovations of the Neolithic Revolution. So,

As time passed and agricultural became more common, more societies were constructed to remain permanent. In the early years of the Neolithic Age, agriculture was less common and the philosophy of hunters-gatherers was regular. Hunter-gatherer societies were not the most efficient way of living because after a year or two, all of the resources in the settled area would be used up. This forced the society to move to another location every few years. Since agriculture became more common, resources were not consumed quickly, which allowed societies to be built more permanent. An early settled society, known as Catal Hüyük, was one of the first large villages to not depend on the hunter-gatherer idea. They solemnly focused on agriculture and fishing.

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The earliest documented evidence of real estate dates back to the cave paintings of the nomads during the Paleolithic Revolution. These paintings littered the ceilings and walls of caves and exhibited occupancy of one point in time. The Neolithic revolution commences “approximately 12,000 years ago” with the “transition from hunter-gatherer societies to predominately agriculture and settlement lifestyles.” The nomads abandoned their lifestyle of traveling alongside the regional animal supplies and instead domesticated livestock, planted crops, and began building the first evidence of housing structures. This introduced “sedentism, or the practice of living permanently in one place” and marked the transition toward an agrarian society.

Out of all the physical, mental, technological, and cultural developments in the Paleolithic and Neolithic Periods, I feel that the most important development for ultimate success and survival of early humans would be the technology of tools. Paleolithic humans made tools of stone, bone, and wood. Evidence of the early hominids selected raw materials with good flaking qualities, such as certain sized stones for the use of sharp-edged tools for cutting. The “Oldwan” was the earliest Paleolithic stone tool. As we all know, throughout the decades the technology of tools began to advance at this point for example, the hand axe, chisel, hatchet, spear, sewing needle, long spears, bow and arrows, fish hooks, and jewelry. The technology of tools allowed