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    1 Describe the basic features of a Paleolithic society. How did the emergence of agriculture contribute to the rise of civilization? Paleolithic is also known as the “stone age” because it was the era where our ancestors foraged or hunted for food. They originated in east Africa anywhere from about four to five million years ago. At this point in time boys and girls were equal because they both depended one another to make it through the winter. When the civilization emerged with agriculture it

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    The pronounced change from hunting and gathering to agriculture and domestication can be simplistically designated the Agricultural or Neolithic Revolution (Pringle:1998). The catalytic developments of the Neolithic Revolution mark a major turning point in the history of humankind. The resulting animal and plant domestication established the foundation on which modern civilization was built. Agriculture is a uniquely human

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    discourse for Discover Magazine that the Neolithic Shift was one of the unfavorable misconceptions in the history of the human race. While he impels acceptable points with the corroboration he has, there is no way to tell what the world would’ve been if humans did not advance through this deviation. So guesses must be derived. However, I believe that flowing through this transformation has had tons of prosperities for us as modern humans. The Neolithic Shift advanced agriculture a monumental step

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    when civilizations began focusing on strengthening their culture and politics. This took place once the civilizations did not have to devote all of their focus to staying alive. The Neolithic Revolution was critical for the rise of civilization. For example, the development of agriculture during the Neolithic Revolution, led to a surplus of food. Once people had enough food to stop the previous process of hunting and gathering, they were able to live in one place. This in

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    were limited. The resource to gain food was small as well. There was a strong need for agricultural improvements and soon things would change drastically. In the Neolithic or New Stone Age the ability to harvest food consistently changed living circumstances in a great way. This allowed people to focus on other skills. Men in the Neolithic era began to trade with other communities. People didn’t just share the labor of gathering food, they began to adapt other useful attributes and services. Women’s

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    1. There were many major changes and contributions that shaped the humanities between the Paleolithic to Neolithic period. One major discovery was the wall paintings found in the Paleolithic period. These paintings often portrayed animals galloping in herds being hunted. What is important about these paintings is they are one of the first records of history. The humans that took the time to paint these pictures are significant because they gave a better understanding of their world. Another contribution

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    A Civilization improves people’s lives in comparison to the Neolithic Society as it shows an advanced step into a social development and human society. The Neolithic Age which began around 8,000 B.C.E could be possibly describe as the greatest single change in human history, this is probably because everything really revolves around it in our society now. As said by William Howells, Back of History, Doubleay Co. “It was dramatic, but long after, in its consequences, because everything else we have

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    in the first people to plant their own crops instead of hunting all day. “The Agricultural Revolution is best defined as the change from food gathering to food production that occurred between about 8000 and 2000 B.C.E. and is also known as the Neolithic Revolution” (The Earth and Its People). Early day humans were known as “hunter gatherers”, who would hunt all day for food and bring back home to feed their families. According to The Earth

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    as cavemen. They are actually known as Paleolithic and Neolithic people, and they were very smart. They lived in the Stone Age to the New Stone Age. The Paleolithic people lived from 100,000 B.C. to 10,000 B.C. and the Neolithic people lived from 5,000 B.C. to 2,500 B.C. The many similarities and differences the Paleolithic and the Neolithic people have in common are very interesting . To begin with, the Paleolithic and the Neolithic people are similar in some ways. One of the ways they are

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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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