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    The Indian history starts with the pre historic settlement and society in the Indian sub-continent, but the first most advanced civilization which India had witnessed was the Indus valley civilization. Indus River Valley Civilization was succeeded by the Vedic period in which India came across the Indo-Arian culture. After the Vedic period the history of India includes the rise of the Buddhism and Jainism as a kind of revolt against the Brahmanism, a succession of powerful dynasties for almost two

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    The Paleolithic and Neolithic Stone Ages The first scholars that existed named the whole period of human devolvement the “Stone Age.” The stone age is divided into three periods which are Paleolithic which means the old Greek age, Mesolithic and Neolithic which is the new Greek age. The Paleolithic and Neolithic stone ages have many great differences and has changed greatly between the two periods. The Paleolithic is divided into three phases which are Lower, Middle, and Upper. The

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    The main goal of the paper (Bocquet-appel, 2002) is to detect the change in the number of humans from Mesolithic to Neolithic transition. The paper uses a combination of both theoretical and cultural historical evidence to infer the transition during Neolithic revolution. Previously, such transition in demography is mainly inferred from genetic data, using the demic-expansion model. Bocquet-appel (2002) argued that the genetic model embedded in the demic model did not show the change representing

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    1.Three major cultural changes or contributions to the humanities that occurred between the Paleolithic period and the and the Neolithic period are the different techniques developed to hunt, the importance of the human figures, and the architecture. Different techniques to hunt were shown by looking at wall paintings, in the Paleolithic era paintings were found in deep caves and showed a realism of the animals they depended on for food, where as the Neolithic era paintings were located on smooth

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    I would prefer living in the Paleolithic Era and the Neolithic Era. One main reason is that the Paleolithic men were much healthier than the Neolithic men in the ways that, Paleolithic men were foragers and they moved their food which led them to not staying in one spot permanently. This means that sickness and diseases were not easily passed on. Unlike the Neolithic men who did have permanent settlements and had illness passed around quite easily. Also it says in the passage Old Stone Age vs.

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    The Stone Age was divided into two eras, The Paleolithic and the Neolithic. During the Paleolithic Era, humans mostly foraged for food, used crude tools, and depended heavily on the environment around them. By the time the Neolithic Era began, people were developing more complex technology, social organization, using fire, and living sedentary lifestyles because of the discovery of agriculture. During the Paleolithic era, hominids used the natural materials in the environment around them (mostly

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    The Neolithic era also known as the “New Stone Age” is considered to be a time of strong advancement between technology and science. “When people think of the Neolithic era, some often think of Stonehenge, the iconic image of this early era. Dating to approximately 3000 B.C.E. and set on Salisbury Plain in England, it is a structure larger and more complex than anything built before it in Europe. Stonehenge is an example of the cultural advances brought about by the Neolithic revolution—the most

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    “A refreshed mind is a creative and productive one,” is a quote written by Kathy Bell, in her book Regression (Bell). In a society that is continuing to regress to the ways of previous historical times, does it make you think that maybe no one is working to keep their mind refreshed and allow our society to grow as opposed to it going backwards? Particular aspects of our society are regressing to ways that can be compared to those of the Paleolithic period, including the way our society's gender

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    During the Paleolithic to the Neolithic period, there were some major cultural changes or contributions to the humanities that occurred. The Paleolithic lived a nomadic life in which they were known as nomadic hunters and gatherers. During the Paleolithic period (circa 40,000 – 8,000 B.C.E.) their form of art were wall paintings instituted deep inside the caves. They would stay by the opening of the cave, where there was light and depended on animals to feed on. Other than cave paintings, another

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    There are four ages of early humanity which are gold, silver, bronze and Iron Age. The first age of human existence was the age of Gold. At this time, life was moral goodness and fruitfulness. Humans ate all of the fruit back then without having to work for it. In the age of silver, people had to work for a living. The age of bronze saw the first wars, but some semblance of morality persisted. In the age of iron, however, nothing is sacred. Even family ties lead to bloodshed .In the Iron Age; the

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