The Rise Of The Paleolithic And Neolithic Societies

Sumerians were creative inventors in their city-state of Sumer and made a lot of advancements and inventions that impacted. What the Sumerians did also helped their society and today’s society. It changed our world to come to be what it is today. Since Sumer is a place that lived long ago, its history and actions made up what our generation and life is like today.

Several critical developments distinguish civilizations from even the most advanced Paleolithic and Neolithic societies that preceded them. Some critical developments include inequality based on gender, status based on class, and lastly the beginning of written literature and more complex calendars. Specifically, one main critical development was inequality based on gender.

The start of agriculture during the Neolithic Revolution led directly to the beginning of civilization. The Neolithic Revolution, which happened 10,000 years ago, was the shift from hunter-gathers to a food-producing culture meaning humans started to farm and domesticate animals. This was the catalyst to help create civilizations. We know now how to distinguish groups of humans from actual civilization if those groups have certain characteristics. Those characteristics are complex institutions, record keeping, advanced cities, specialized workers, and advanced technology. A result of the Neolithic Revolution is that more people were able to thrive since there was a surplus of food. These early civilizations were able to take advantage of the rivers and create irrigation systems to water their crops.

There were changes that occurred from the Paleolithic Period to the Neolithic. Small changes were made in this time, from the culture, to bigger changes like economics, and agriculture. How did man deal with these changes and what kind of impact did it have on society?

     The societies of Paleolithic man were far different then that of the Neolithic man. The Old Stone Age societies had no time for other actives then what was necessary to survive. They did not invent many new things, and were constantly moving and changing their environment. Societies in he New Stone Age were a settled people, who constantly

The Paleolithic and Neolithic periods displayed major cultural differences in religion, lifestyles, government, and technology. “Culture is the way of life of a group of people. Culture includes common practices of a society, its shared understandings, and its social organizations are always changing” (McDougal, World History: Patterns of Interaction, 2004) The Paleolithic time period was full of inventions and was a time where new technology and lifestyles were blossoming through all cultures. Tools made out of pressure flaked stone and rock were created during this period to help with everyday tasks. The Paleolithic period was also the period where the creations of fires were discovered along with religion and languages. The Neolithic age, however, was more technologically improved, than the Paleolithic age. This was the start of the agricultural revolution and the start of civilizations and societies. These two periods were ever changing.

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.

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 limestone, beneath cliff hangs, and in rock shelters these paintings showed the animals that they depended on for food also but these paintings showed the animals being hunted by human figures with bows and arrows. This shows that somewhere between the two eras humans developed a more efficient way to hunt and human figures became more important. Human figures were rarely known before the Neolithic era, wall paintings did not show them and sculptures of them were very rare except few female figures found from the Paleolithic age. In the Neolithic age, paintings not only showed the importance of human figures hunting but it showed them dancing, and fighting as a community. Architecture is not known from before the Neolithic period, very little survives because it was made out of material that disappeared long ago. The most famous piece of architecture from that era is the Stonehenge, not only was the Stonehenge believed to serve as a religious purpose, it also was known as a clock

Do you ever wish you could go back in history? If you answered yes then you should learn more about the Paleolithics and the Neolithics. These two cultures are extremely different, but were basically the founding fathers for the way we’ve evolved and live today.

Paleolithic people and Neolithic people were very different hominids, and they have many interesting facts about them. One interesting fact about the Paleolithic people is that they rarely ever traded with anyone. Paleolithic people lived 2 million years ago and lasted until 8000 B.C.E. An interesting fact about Neolithic people is they built their houses out of adobe and they were permanent houses. Neolithic people lived in 8000 B.C.E and lasted until 3000

For the Sumerians, they firstly invented the wheel as useful tool. Not only that, they are the first who discovered the movements of planets. Also, the Egyptians abided near the Nile River had such an important contribution to the advance

Sumerians... an ancient civilisation that most of you have probably never heard of. They were a nation of people settled in Southern Mesopotamia which, is modern day Iraq and Kuwait. Not only are these people one of the oldest civilisations in human history, with their existence dating back to 5000 BCE, but they're influence on our lives today, 7000 years later, is incredible. The Sumer people were the first to create a written language in 3500-3000 BCE, 2000 years before the ancient Chinese. They were the first to enforce the idea of a set time for a work day, there is evidence to suggest they invented the wheel, and are even responsible for time itself. The Sumer people divided day and night into 12 hours each consisting of 60 minutes with each minute consisting of 60 seconds, a method of time that is still used to this day. Apart from these incredible advancements in early human history, the Sumer people are also recognised for being possibly the second oldest civilisation to bury their dead. These burial customs and beliefs of the Sumer people have been studied

The Neolithic time period , not a fair amount has evolved during the first period of mankind . However, there was a considerable span for drastic change in society. During this time period people were evolving from nomads to settlers.The Neolithic era started when people started to learn how to grow their own food , captured animals but, instead of eating them they domesticated them, and they started to live a sedentary life style.

Neolithic age was the start of many accomplishments for early humans. It was revolutionary because it was the transition from nomadic to a sedentary way of life. They went from hunter-gathering to food producing communities. On top of that, they domesticated wild animals, produced stone tools and weapons, as well as mud or brick dwellings. Food production alone made it groundbreaking because they started to from more sophisticated ways of life. This also included more cultured social organizations.

The history of victuals evolved with the humanity history through Paleolithic Era, Mesolithic Era, Neolithic Era, and the initiation of civilization times, to the modern and contemporary times. The agricultural revolution began during Neolithic Era, as humans started to grow plants and domesticate livestock systematically (Cohen 1977; Tudge 1998; Bellwood 2004). The industrialization of comestibles developed in the 19th and 20th centuries, and marked a change in the global food history. It has significantly improved the efficiency of food production by agricultural machinery technologies and increased the availability of various kinds of industrial foods and/or food related products by modern industrial technologies. However, concurrently the