The Beginning

of CivilizationsBy: Taylor

10/14th/10

Sto

ne A

ge T

ools

The earliest stone tool

making was at least 2.6

million years ago. The

Early Stone Age includes

the most basic stone

toolkits made by early

humans. The basic toolkit,

including lots of novel

forms of stone core, continued to be made. I

learned that they made

toolkits about 2.6 million

years ago and used them

for hunting, and cooking.

Agri

cult

ura

l Revo

luti

on

The agricultural revolution was

a period of agricultural

development between the 18th

century and the end of the 19th

century, which saw a large and

rapid increase in agricultural

productivity and big

improvements in farm

technology. Between the eighth

century and the eighteenth, the

tools of farming basically

stayed the same and few

advancements in technology. I

learned that the agricultural

revolution was about farming.

Cave

Pain

ting

Cave Paintings consists of engraved or

painted works on open air rocks or on

the floors, walls and ceilings of caves,

some of them in deep. They were

created during the Upper Paleolithic

period (40,000 to 10,000 BC), and the

best were done by what we call the

Magdalene nians people who

flourished in Europe from 18,000 to

10,000 BC. Such works have a unity,

and can be described as the

Magdalenian art system, the first in

human history. It was also the longest,

lasting for more than two thirds of the

total time when humans have

produced art. I learned that the

caveman and cavewomen were trying

to express themselves and tell us

what they did.

Mig

rati

on o

f M

an

Early human migrations began

when Homo erectus first migrated

out of Africa over the Levantine

corridor and Horn of Africa to

Eurasia about 1.8 million years

ago, a migration probably sparked

by the development of language.

Erectus out of Africa was followed

by that of Homo antecessor into

Europe around 800,000 years ago,

followed by Homo heidelbergensis

around 600,000 years ago, where

they probably evolved to become

the Neanderthals. I learned that

men traveled all the time to

different places for different reasons.