Post date: Aug 1, 2013 3:50:13 PM
Essential (Seminar) Questions:
1) Stokes Brown says that prehistorians are convinced that homo sapiens from 35,000 years ago are the same as us with the full brain power of modern people. Using the earliest hunter gatherers as your lens, what makes humans human?
2) What are the characteristics of a hunter-gatherer society? To what extent was the hunter-gatherer society considered the “original affluent society”?
3) To what extent did the Agricultural Revolution and the development of cities improve the lives of humans?
4) Using the 20th century as a lens, to what extent is collective learning beneficial?
Today, we had a seminar on agriculture and cities, and we worked on the LBH projects.
Your projects and presentations are due in class on Monday, August 12, 2013. We will be presenting on Monday and Tuesday of that week to end our course.
We'll be looking at the interconnecting world, industrialization, and the modern era for our final week of class. To prepare, for HW for this weekend (due Mon, Aug. 5), please:
To give you a preview into other readings for our last week of class, for Wednesday, August 7, 2013, please:
All four of these chapter should be printed in your packets and constitute the last of your readings.
Lastly, here are Little Big History documents: