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    these drinks were invented in different eras, and the inventions of these drinks were affected by what had occurred in the time period. There were many historical eras that are covered in the book. Beginning with the Stone Age, which was the time period beer was created. The Stone Age is divided into three separate

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    The Paleolithic Age is the earliest period of human development. This period was about between 2.5 million and 20000 years ago. During this time frame the first appearance of the early stages of the stone tools had marked an incredible step for mam-kind. There were two types of people that thrived during this time. These societies were very similar yet different in their social, economic, and political structures. The foraging societies appeared earlier then the urbanized societies who devolved

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    Take the first poem The History Teacher by Billy Collins for example. Right away in the first line it says that the teacher is trying to protect the student’s innocence by lying to them. He tell the students that the Ice Age was a period were everyone had to wear sweaters, the Stone Age was named after the long driveways that the time period had, and even that the War of the Roses took place in a Garden. He tries to protect the children’s innocence by lying to them and keeping them from the ugly truth

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    This led to self-publishing the book The Stone Age Diet: Based on In-depth Studies of Human Ecology and the Diet of Man. Other researchers published articles and books that supported the concept of the Paleo Diet through the 1980’s and 1990’s, including S. Boyd Eaton, Melvin Konner and Staffan Lindeberg. Many websites and online communities have also been created in order to provide information and support for Paleo followers. Dr. Loren Cordian and his team of re- searchers have formed the

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    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

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    the late Stone Age because of pottery urns found among the Slavic people of Russia. Some historians think cremation started in Greece when the Greek speaking immigrants from the North introduced it to them. During all historical periods, the Hebrews always interred the dead. Hebrews believed cremation was “an indignity of the dead.” Early Christians frowned upon cremation because they thought it was pagan associated. It is also believed that Scandinavians practiced cremation in the Bronze Age. Skipping

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    When we talked about clothing of Neolithic period, can also be called New Stone Age (4500BC-2400BC), the first view will jump out is animal hides punched with awls and sewn with sinew and bone needles, first appearance of woven plant fibre textile. The developing journey is from using plant directly as clothing to using plant fibre to make garment. Like food and shelter, clothing is a basic human requirement, especially in some districts where warm clothing is necessary. Furs and unscraped hides

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    Every generation has its own dimension. In the ages of Apes, man’s primary motive was to feed himself and so, he learned the means of hunting; In the Stone Age he learned means, which made his work easier and he invented tools in this pursuit; In the Iron Age he discovered technologies, he started manufacturing and later established business. This development saga of the man continued, always re-inventing him. Information is the dimension of the present age. How fast, how efficient and how effective

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    This Isn’t Cool Getting out of the stone ages is a great thing to experience, but just how far exactly do we want to go. Ever thing around us is changing before our eyes nothing is the same it was 15 years ago, really nothing is the same it was 5 years ago. I think it’s funny I think its funny all this new technology is supposed to enhance our everyday lives but in reality it’s just puts us in an art farm with the government. We think we have so much control with everything we do but as the more

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    The Neolithic period, which occurred during the Holocene Epoch, is defined as the final period of the Stone Age (Violatti, C. 2014). According Encyclopaedia Britannica it is marked as being “the final stage of the cultural evolution or technological development among prehistoric humans”. The Neolithic period saw the beginning of agricultural practices, and the keeping of livestock (Encyclopaedia Britannica. 2014). As the Neolithic phenomenon spread across Europe, populations changed from being hunter-gathers

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