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Period 1: Technological and Environmental Transformations, to c. 600 B.C.E. Key Concept 1.1. Big Geography and the Peopling of the Earth The term Big Geography draws attention to the global nature of world history. Throughout the Paleolithic period, humans migrated from Africa to Eurasia, Australia, and the Americas. Early humans were mobile and creative in adapting to different geographical settings from savanna to desert to Ice Age tundra. By making an analogy with modern hunter-forager societies, anthropologists infer that these bands were relatively egalitarian. Humans also developed varied and sophisticated technologies. 1. Archeological evidence indicates that during the Paleolithic era, hunting-foraging bands of humans gradually migrated from their origin in East Africa to Eurasia, Australia, and the Americas, adapting their technology and cultures to new climate regions. a. Humans used fire in new ways: to aid hunting and foraging, to protect against predators, and to adapt to cold environments. b. Humans developed a wider range of tools specially adapted to different environments from tropics to tundra. c. Economic structures focused on small kinship groups of hunting-foraging bands that could make what they needed to survive. However, not all groups were self-sufficient; they exchanged people, ideas, and goods. EQ—What conditions drove human migration during the Paleolithic Age and how did Paleolithic people adapt their technology and cultures to new regions? Big Picture Questions from the book: 1. What is the significance of the Paleolithic era in world history? 2. In what ways did various Paleolithic societies differ from one another, and how did they change over time? (Think about the Chumash and the San) 3. What statements in this chapter seem to be reliable and solidly based in facts, and which ones are more speculative and uncertain? 4. How might our attitudes toward the modern world influence our assessment of Paleolithic societies? Margin Questions: 1. What was the sequence of human migration across the planet? 2. How did the Austronesian migration differ from other early patterns of human movement? 3. In what ways did hunting and gathering economy shape other aspects of Paleolithic societies? 4. Why did some Paleolithic peoples abandon earlier, more nomadic ways and begin to live a more settled life? Vocabulary Hunting-foraging Migration Climate Big Geography Egalitarian Shamans San culture/ Chumash culture Uses of fire Anthropology Tools Adapting Kinship Egalitarian Dreamtime hominid Archeology paleontology culture artifact Cultural exchange Tundra, tropics, savanna Technology Paleolithic Economic, social, political Venus figures Flora/fauna