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Early Agriculture 8000 BCE- 600 lecture ONE 7 CHARACTERISTICS OF A CIVILIZATION Generation OF reliable surpluses Highly specialized occupations Clear social class distinctions Growth of cities Complex, formal governments Long-distant trade Organized writing system DEFINITION OF A HUMAN Aggressive against their own kind Babies are dependant for a long time -Limits adult women Awareness of death Opposable thumb Standing upright (bipedial) FAACIAL EXPRESSIONS Elaborate speech Paleolithic age Meolithic age Old stone age Foragers ?hunter gatherer society Nomadic Slow population growth Survival techniques, Lived in large enough tribes to defend themselves, housing and clothing Cave painting at Lascaux Belief in the afterlife Middle stone age 12,ooo to 8000 BCE Stone tools
