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Three Age System
Archaeology and Physical Anthropology
Stone Age: 2.5 mya - 4,000 BCE
Bronze Age: 4,000 BCE - 1300 BCE
Iron Age: 1300 BCE - 400 CE
What is common in evidence for each?
What assumption is about it?
Problems with the Three Age System
Different Hominids
Different Stone Tools
Different Ways of Life
Scavenger
Hunter - Gatherer
Farmer
Archeological
Period
Dates
Group
Way of Life
Tool
Kit
Historical
5,500 ya (3500 BCE) – Present
Homo sapiens
City
Farming
Craft
Trade
Writing
Construction
Metals
Wheels
Specialized
Neolithic
12,000 ya –
5,500 ya
Homo sapiens
Village
Farmer
Neolithic
Stone Tools
Agriculture
Specialized
Upper Paleolithic
30,000 ya – 12,000 ya
Homo sapiens
Nomadic
Hunter and Gatherer
Upper Paleolithic
Stone Tools
Regional Cultures -
Specialized
Middle Paleolithic
250,000 ya – 30,000 ya
Homo neanderthalensis
Nomadic
Hunter and Gatherer
Stone Tools
Mousterian
Tradition –
Complex
Lower Paleolithic
1.8 mya – 250,000 ya
Homo erectus
Homo ergaster
(Africa)
Nomadic
Hunter and Gatherer
Stone Tools
Acheulean
Tradition
Fire
Paleolithic
2 mya –
1.8 mya
Homo habilis
Nomadic
Scavenger?
Stone Tools
Eoliths
Oldowan Tradition
Bronze Age (Empires)
Sumerian Cities
Empires of Akkad, Babylon
Empire of Egypt
Empire of Hittites
Empire of Mycenaeans
Collapse
Iron Age - Greeks
prehistory periodization
an unhappy compromise
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