HISTORY AND HUMAN LIFESTYLES

Themes:

• what is history?
• what does it mean to be human?

History

What is history?

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R. G. Collingwood:

E. H. Carr:

What is the role of the historian?

• fact
• evidence
• interpretation
• bias versus point of view
• ethnocentrism and chronocentrism

Application:

Historical Methods:

• Read ___________________
• Write ____________________
• Work from __________ to ____________ and back again
• Understand different ___________________

II Human Lifestyles

• What does it mean to be human?
• What are human lifestyles? Why do they change over time?
• Neandertal (200,000-35,000 B.C.E.)

Paleolithic lifestyle:________________________

• homo sapiens sapiens 40,000 B.C.E --
• _____ relationship with the environment
• Reader ch. 1: Fowler, Weaving
• Reader ch. 2: Shostak, Nisa and !Kung people (N!ai)

Neolithic lifestyle: _________________________

• 10,000-8,000 B.C.E.---
• _____ relationship with the environment *
• adaptation:
• agriculture =
• physical:
• cultural:
• creation of patriarchy? Reader ch. 2: Boulding and Lerner essays

Conclusions

Explore!

• Neandertals: A Cyber Perspective
• Paleolithic Art
• Mothers of Time: Paleolithic Figurines