Human Origins and Early Civilization

By: Rodgin Grace D. Regencia

Paleolithic Era

Period of Existence: 1mya- 13000 BCE

Paleolithic is the period during which human beings lived entirely by hunting and

gathering.

Customs• engage in religious behavior such as burial

and ritual• ritual defleshing• Animal worship• believed in a pantheon of gods or

supernatural beings• more complex and hierarchical organization• engaged in endemic warfare. • No formal leadership during the Middle and

Upper Paleolithic

Climate

• Pliocene

cooler and drier, and seasonal, similar to

modern climates. Ice sheets grew on

Antarctica.

• Pleistocene

repeated glacial cycles during which

continental glaciers pushed to the 40th

parallel in some places.

Major Cities

Achievements• first stone tools

• introduction of agriculture

• made tools of stone, bone, and wood

• Handmade tools and objects found in nature — cudgel, club, sharpened stone, chopper, hand axe, scraper, spear, Bow and arrow, harpoon, needle, scratch awl

• humans began to produce works of art such as cave paintings, and jewelry.

• The earliest Paleolithic stone tool industry, the Olduwan, was developed

• Fire was used

• Group work was introduced

• Net

• Made the Venus of Dolní Věstonice (the oldest ceramic art)

• Venus figurines, animal carvings and rock paintings

Structures

Neolithic Era

Neolithic is the following interval during which plant and animal domestication was

introduced.

Customs

Major Cities

Achievements

Structures