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    The Paleolithic Era

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    the globe during the latter phases of the Paleolithic Era. Many developments allowed the early hunter-gathers to cope with various environmental pressures. The first development is fire which was the “advance” towards human technology. Fire was considered the most centered element in their culture. They formed the technique to preserve glowing embers and starting fires by rubbing sticks together. This technique led to many improvements in the Paleolithic people. It allowed people to eat much a wider

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    Paleolithic Era

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    In the Paleolithic Era, humans relied on hunting and gathering to live, living off the resources the environment provided and moving on when resources became scarce. This nomadic lifestyle allowed them to eat a variety of plans and animals, including birds, mammoths, bison, deer, rodents, roots, and berries. Because plants grew, fruited, and matured at different times of the year, gathering remained a fairly constant means to provide food throughout the year. Although small animals and young, ill

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    The Paleolithic Diet

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    If early Paleolithic era cavemen were living their lifestyle today, they would be among the fittest humans alive. Their primitive lifestyle included walking long distances to physically hunt large animals. They also spent a lot of time walking to gather berries and leaves as primary food sources. When they ran out of food sources in one area, they walked long distances to take root in another area. That active lifestyle and the natural, unprocessed foods they consumed made early man healthier than

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    Paleolithic Kinship

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    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

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    Volume 1. Boston: Wadsworth, Cengage Learning, 2012, the Paleolithic era was the earliest and longest period of prehistory, when humans used simple stone stool (Lewis). The Neolithic era was the period of human history characterized by advances in stone stool-making and the beginning of agriculture (Lewis). This essay is going to compare and contrast the people in Paleolithic era and Neolithic. The difference between the people in the Paleolithic and Neolithic era was the way they both obtain food, and

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    The Paleolithic Era and the Neolithic Era had many similarities and differences. The Paleolithic Era was known as the old stone age, it stated on 2,000,000 BCE. After the Paleolithic Era came the Neolithic Era which was also known as the new stone age. The people that live during the Paleolithic Era where nomads which meant they moved around to gather their food. The paleolithic Era people hunted and gathered their food. However, during the Neolithic Era the people knew how to farm and domesticate

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    living in the Paleolithic Era transitioned and evolved to become farming people during the Neolithic Era, with different economic and social characteristics. During both ages, one similarity is that both societies developed forms of language and the generation of artistic technologies. However, they differ as the Neolithic Era founded the basis of artificial selection and the domestication of crops and animals, deviating from the basis of hunting and gathering seen in the Paleolithic Era. Historical

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    One of the most incredible achievements of Paleolithic people was their ability to migrate across the globe. Paleolithic people first originated in Eastern Africa near the present-day countries of Tanzania, Uganda, and Kenya. The need for food and resources led to the initial migration out of Africa. The discovery of fire and warm animal skin clothing enabled people to live in colder climates which increased migration. In conclusion, the need for resources and discoveries such as fire and warm clothing

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    They are known 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

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    Paleolithic or Neolithic Many people think of early humans as hairy, smelly, dumb caveman but they are not just cavemen. They are actually Paleolithic and Neolithic people who were very intelligent. During these ages humans made many great advancements. Although they each made many advancements they had their differences with few similarities. To begin with Paleolithic and Neolithic people had different arts and crafts. Paleolithic people made cave paintings for their hunt

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