Tuesday, November 6, 2012

First peoples (1)


Any type of human behavior has been traced back to first come from Africa. The reason that human activity is traced back to Africa is because humans first began to inhibit environments like forests and deserts in Africa. Along with the movement went the technological innovations of tool making, and weapon making. Their settlements were planned depending on the seasonal movement of fish and game. Soon after human beings began migrating out of Africa and into Eurasia, Australia, the Americas, and later in to the islands of the pacifica. Humans were able to adapt to virtually every type of environment on earth, by just using tools and gathering and hunting silks to aid them. After their long journey of settling across earth, Paleolithic people created a numerous amount of separate and distinct societies. Each of them had its own history, culture, language, identity, and rituals. But one thing that the still had in common was their gathering and hunting skills and stone tools. After 200,000 years or more of the Paleolithic era, human societies could distinct themselves by their tool kits, their adaptation to the environment, their beliefs, social organization and more. Two societies  stayed stayed with their gathering and hunting ways of life. The San of southern africa, and the Chumash of southern California. Unlike others that changed and adapted to the expansion of agricultural or industrial societies, the San and Chumash maintained their ways of life into the eighteenth, nineteenth, and twentieth centuries.

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