Paleolithic People Analysis

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Tania Alvarez Mod 6 AP History August 26, 2015 A Paleolithic Woman in the Twentieth Century 1. How useful do you find Nisa’s account for understanding the life of much earlier Paleolithic people? What evidence of contact with a wider world can you find it’s her story? I find Nisa’s account for understanding the life of much earlier Paleolithic people very helpful because not only do I not notice how was the Paleolithic era, but also the Neolithic era (modern day) the different things and the changes overtime. Her story talks about her beliefs like participating in the gathering and hunting cultural of her ancestors, her memories of childhood, her several marriages, the birth of her children, her relationship with several lovers…show more content…
She understood the curing rituals that she took part of as a way that takes your thoughts away. Your mind and your senses leave and you don’t think clearly. Things become strange and start to change. You can’t listen to people or understand what they say. You look at them and they suddenly become very tiny. 4. How would you describe NIsa’s overall assessment of San life? Do you find it romanticized, realistic, or critical? What evidence form the passage supports your conclusion? The way that I would find Nisa’s overall assessment of San life would be very critical. There’s critical points in that time that now in the contemporary society does not experience any more or at least in a different form or way. For example, the beliefs of sex and marriage. They thought that what makes a man I by having sex, which to this day is not true. Marriage back then was a man who married you, not killed you, a man you would feed you, now it is about finding a soulmate and living with them of a long time. Especially and most importantly would be the whole curing ritual in which cases now at this time there are not so much of healing rituals like they were back then where you would pound it along with some bulbs and some beans and cooked them together, it did had a horrible tate that mad ethe mouth feel…show more content…
Have a close look at the aerial photograph of Stonehenge in Visual Source 1.4. how would you describe its major features to someone who had never seen it? What questions about the site come to mind? The way that I would describe this Stonehenge to someone who has never seen it before I would explain to them that is it a series of earthworks accompanied by circles of standing stones. Some questions that I would ask is who came up with this idea and why? Was it a new form of religion? Why just get rocks and stack them up? 18. What does a structure of the magnitude of Stonehenge suggest about the Neolithic societies that created it? The structure of magnitude of Stonehenge suggest about the Neolithic societies that created it would be the matter of controversy and speculation. Astronomical observatory, aligned with the solstices and able to predict eclipses and the movement if heavenly bodies, or perhaps a center of sun worship. 19. What kinds of additional evidence would be most useful to scholars seeking to puzzle out the mystery of Stonehenge? The Stonehenge emerged around 4,000 BCE it is known as “domain of the dead” or an abode of the ancestors. The Stonehenge also depicted as “a place of pilgrimage for the sick and injured of the Neolithic
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