Chapter 1: First Peoples; First Farmers

• Our early ancestors gathered berries, nuts, roots, grain, hunting animals, and fishing. This was known as "gathering and hunting" 
• These people were known as "Paleolithic", or "Old Stone Age"
• The "Neolithic Revolution or New Stone Age was a technological breakthrough for human life. 
• Homo sapiens first emerged around 200,000-250,000. (Africa)
• Human migration began in Eurasia. 
• Cave paintings were of human beings, human handprints, and abstract designs. 
• Migration to Australia in 60,000
• The Americas: Clovis point/culture emerged around 13,000 years ago across North America. 
• Pacific:3,500 years ago
• The slow rate of population growth with low technology. 
• agriculture and urban life: lacking inequalities of wealth and power.
• women and men were equal(females were still raped and beaten.
• Agricultural Revolution-cultivation of plants and animals. 
• farmers claimed land, animals transformed as selective breeding (domestication)
• End of the last Ice Age
• A new way of life began with simple technology
• Without animals, the people of the Americas lacked sources of protein, manure, and power.
• Americas lacked grain.
• The agricultural practice also lacked in the Americas
• Human population increased when the Agricultural Revolution came around 
• Saw change in farming communities
• domestication of plants and animals (in hard times people went from plants to animals)
• Agricultural revolution transformed the human journey and the evolution of life on earth.