Paleolithic Era

How did the domestication of plants and animals affect agrarian societies? The domestication of plants an animals helped the agrarian societies because they could then get milk, cheese, butter, etc. from cows; cheese from goats, wool for coats and string from sheep, and they could grow their own crops and have a healthy maintained diet. The agrarian societies were smart about what they ate and when they ate, and if they did not recognize it, they did not eat it. They did not have to constantly worry about when or where they had to move their people to, they just built up what they had and used their resources to

The people of the Paleolithic Age were mostly nomads. To survive they had to travel everywhere, and follow the

Human existence has lasted over several million years and in that time there has been countless advances in the way we live. Human history has had many diverse periods of time, one being the Stone Age. During the Stone Age there were two major subdivisions, the Paleolithic and Neolithic periods. The Paleolithic, which lasted until about 10,000 years ago, had a significant separating factor from the Neolithic, ending in 2000 B.C.E. This factor was the way in which the people in these periods acquired food. The Paleolithic people hunted and gathered their food while the Neolithic people produced their own food by agriculture. These two different styles of obtaining food greatly affected the lifestyles of each period’s people. The

Around 10,000 to 2.5 million years ago, the first period of the Stone Age, the Paleolithic Era, existed and was known for the nomadic lifestyle that its people lived. The people of the Paleolithic Era were hunter-gatherers who moved constantly in search of animals to hunt and plants to gather. The Paleolithic people preferred to live off of the resources that existed in abundance in a given region, rather than producing resources for themselves. For this reason, the Paleolithic people were organized into small kinship societies. Small kinship societies enabled the Paleolithic people to live in groups and survive from available resources because larger kinship societies require more resources and living space, which was not ideal. Since the

“The history of American Indians before European contact is broadly divided into three major periods: the Paleo-Indian period, the Archaic period (8000–1000 b.c.), and the Woodland period (1000 b.c.–1600 a.d.).”(DiNome) There is little known information about the Paleo-Indian period; however, the Paleo Indians are believed to be some of the first American Indians, not only in Florida, but in all of America. The Paleo Indians were believed to be nomads who fought and hunted with stone tools and clubs. During the Archaic period American Indians began to become more civilized. It was in the Archaic period that the American Indians began to establish a system of trading among their people. During this time the Indians also started developing migration routes to bring other Indians down to Florida from the Carolinas. Similarly to the Indians in the Paleo time period, the Indians in the Archaic period used stone tools for hunting and fighting, but they also began to utilize the use of bone tools during this time period. Another skill that the Indians started becoming more familiar with during this time period was basketry. The last period that we see in pre-contact Native American life is the Woodland period. It is called the Woodland period because during this time is when the Native Americans began farming. We see during this time the Indian settlements had begun moving closer to streams of water and rivers, because that is where the soil was good for successful

The societies in the Paleolithic era differed from one another because each society had a different governments, diets, social organizations, what tools they used, and how they adapted to their environment. Some societies decided to move into a permanent settlement or village while others decided to keep their way of hunting and gathering. The societies that decided to move into a settlement started to become larger and complex. This allowed early humans to be able to accumulate more goods which caused more inequality in these societies.

Three societies started the early times of life. Each society had different cultures and beliefs. With the three societies, Native America, African, and European. There where various of ways that believed settler differentiated through time Paleo, Archaic, Pre-Columbian Era. The Era’s had different belief in each of them but also had growth. Starting with the Paleo- Indian era, numerous years ago, was the first people who travel to the North America or that to be believed were the Paleo-Indian. Not knowing the true impacted on what they were coming to settled to the North America for. Different opinions on the settlement of the Native America what brought them to North America, were they just being lucky and chasing food. The Paleo-Indian Era 10,000- 15,000 years ago, not really having the knowledge of the Paleo

The Paleolithic Age was the age of stone. It occurred 2.6 billion years ago. During this age humans lived in small groups of about ten to twelve members plus children (Ltd, 2016). During this age humans were also hunters and gatherers. Women searched for nuts, berries, and other plants while the men did all the hunting. Only small proportions of food were found due to the environment and lifestyle of the early peoples. There were often scarce amounts of food to feed their small families. The hunters and gatherers were considered nomads because they constantly moved from place to place in search of food. The animals that the nomads would hunt for would also move location in search of

One of the many things that defined the Paleolithic Age was the small population growth as Nomadic hunter-gatherer groups consisting of 20-30 people were constantly migrating and following their prey. Around 10,000 BCE, humans began to cultivate crops such as wheat and barley; marking the beginning of farming. Farming was essential because not only did it enhance the way of living but it also lead to important advancements that serve as the fundamentals of many civilizations todays such as utilizing methods of irrigation and food storage as well as the construction of houses. Humans also began employing, or domesticating, animals for benefits aside from their previous, traditional use.

During the Paleolithic times, hunting and gathering remained the sole base of finding a food. Small alterations occurred that help start the change to a different way of life. During the end of the Paleolithic period, about 15,00 years ago, there was a climate change that allowed warmer locations to be formed which later help facilitate fertile lands. The climate became warmer and the glaciers retreated which allowed for wetter land to support the sedentary and those semi sedentary forger

The climate had become warmer, and because of this, plant and animal life were becoming not only more abundant, but also more diverse. The new availability of food and resources made the lives of early man slightly easier and less unpredictable. Consequently, they had more children, more of whom survived to maturity. However, because the population of the tribe was growing, it became more difficult to move as a group. This system of following the sources of food was no longer necessary, since more people meant that a greater number of new jobs could be done.

The farming and herding communities planted seeds and domesticated animals. This was called the agriculture era and it was not always easy. It depended on the climate, soils and what kind of animals there were to be domesticated. This human society planted grains such as corn and rice where they would eat from. Since this society had a large amount of plants that they could feed from members barley starved which increased their population. It seems like a great time to live in unless a natural disaster comes and destroys all of the plants and their livestock.

From the Paleo-Indian period came the Archaic Period. The archaic was from 8,000 to 2,000 B.C. The people in the Archaic period began to adapt to their environment. Whereas the paleo- Indians traveled in small groups the Archaic people started traveling in larger groups. The Archaic people also started developing new tools. They designed baskets and nets which helped them collect and store food. To a small degree they did small scale farming, but it was not a big production. They remained solely dependent on hunting and gathering food (Encyclopedia Britannica). It is important to note that the Archaic period is divided into three sections called Early, Middle, and Late. A couple of burial mounds from the Archaic period were discovered. The

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.

Jurassic is a period of time with Dinosaurs, rodents and birds. There were also island seas consisting of sharks, sea monsters and blood-red planktons. The existing plants in that period were cycads, ferns and conifers. The Mesozoic era was about 245 million years ago to 65 years ago, so it almost lasted about 180 years in total. The Mesozoic era is divided into three periods of Triassic, Jurassic and Cretaceous. Mesozoic era means middle animals and it is the era, which the word’s fauna has changed from what is in the Paleozoic era and the most famous organisms of this era are dinosaurs. In the Mesozoic era, the extinction of more than 90 percent of species in the earth was observed and the reason behind it was mostly volcanic eruptions and climate changes. On the other hand, this era had massive changes that represented ecological niches and rise to new creatures such as rodent-size mammals and first dinosaurs. In Triassic, which was the first period of Mesozoic, the mammals and first dinosaurs existed. Later than that, the second period was Jurassic, which giant shaped dinosaurs and other kinds of dinosaurs were developed. Besides that the first flowering plants and primitive birds, with long teeth appeared in that era as well.