Testing the Progressivist View in Prehistoric Times

Agriculture = Practice of farming, including cultivation of the soil for the growing of crops and the rearing of animals to provide food, wool, and other products Hunter-gatherers = People who live by hunting wild animals and gathering wild plants for food Population density = Number of people living per unit of area Parthenon = Ancient temple in Athens, Greece, dedicated to the goddess Athena

Extended nursing = Nomadic hunter-gatherer lifestyle Child spacing at four-year intervals = Nomadic hunter-gatherer lifestyle Childbearing every two years = Farming lifestyle Higher population densities = Farming lifestyle

Starvation, warfare, and tyranny = Choice to increase food production over limiting population Malnourished farmers outfighting healthy hunters = Higher population densities due to agriculture Forced migration of sensible hunter-gatherers = Pressure from expanding agricultural populations Band competition leading to violence = Conflict between different lifestyle choices

<p>Post-agricultural technological advances = Enabling new art forms and easier preservation of art Parthenon built by gorillas = Illustration of ample free time not being the sole factor for art creation Great paintings and sculptures by hunter-gatherers = Existence before post-agricultural technological advances Art production by Inuit and Pacific Northwest Indians = Continuation until recent times by certain groups</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Almost at the end of our first day on a 24-hour clock = Current human adoption of agriculture at 11:54 p.m. Living as hunter-gatherers until 11:54 p.m. = Length of time spent as hunter-gatherers in human history Human race beginning at midnight on a clock = Start of human history corresponding to midnight</p> Signup and view all the answers