UCSP Lesson 5 CULTURAL EVOLUTION
UCSP Lesson 5 CULTURAL EVOLUTION
UCSP Lesson 5 CULTURAL EVOLUTION
Hunting animals
http://www.lascaux.culture.fr/?lng=en#/en/00.xml
Lascaux Cave Paintings
France –16,000 yearsago
Lascaux Cave Paintings
France –16,000 years ago
http://www.lascaux.culture.fr/index.php?lng=e
n#/en/02_00.xml
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Neolithic
Revolution
Domestication of Animals Early Farming Methods
Neolithic
Food Sources
Farming and domestication of animals!
Jewelry
Neolithic
Resources
Extensive local trade and barter
Traveling farther for materials
Later
Woven textiles
How did it improve life?
Metallurgy
How did it improve life?
Wheels and Wheeled Vehicles
How did it improve life?
MAN’S CULTURAL EVOLUTION
Paleolithic
Age
Neolithic Age
CHARACTERISTICS OF HUMAN
SOCIETY
1. It is a social system
2. Society is relatively large
3. A society recruits most of its members
from within
4. A society sustains itself across
generations
5. A society’s members share a culture
6. A society occupies a territory
TYPES OF SOCIETIES
3. PASTORAL SOCIETIES
It relied on herding and the domestication of animals for
food and clothing to satisfy the greater needs of the
group.
Most pastoralists were nomads who followed their
herds in a never-ending quest for pasture and water.
It was organized along male-centered kinship groups.
TYPES OF SOCIETIES
4. AGRICULTURAL SOCIETIES
These societies were characterized by the use of the plow in farming.
Creation of the irrigation system provided farming enough surplus for the
community
Ever-growing populations came together in broad river valley system.
Those who controlled access to land and its use became rich and powerful
since they could demand the payment of taxes and political support.
By taxing the bulk of agriculture surplus, the political leaders could make
bureaucracies implement their plans and armies to protect their
privileges.
Social classes became entrenched, and the state evolved.
TYPES OF SOCIETIES
5. INDUSTRIAL SOCIETIES
It constitutes an entirely new form of society that
requires an immense , mobile diversity specialized, high
skilled and well coordinated labor force.
Creates a highly organized systems of exchange between
suppliers of raw materials and industrial manufacturers.
Industrial societies are highly secularized.
The predominant form of social and political organization in
industrial societies is the bureaucracy
TYPES OF SOCIETIES
6. POST-INDUSTRIAL SOCIETIES