Summary: The Human Past | 9780500294208 | Chris Scarre

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  • 12 Holocene Europe

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  • Where are really pushed glacial hunter gatherers most visible

    Along coasts and rivers and beside lakes and marshes.
  • What caused the spread of agriculture through central Europe and the Mediterranean

    Farming communities move into new territories (domestic plants and animals been adopted by indigenous hunter gatherers.
  • Were European Neolithic farming settlements small and scattered or substantial villages formed mounds

    Small scattered
  • Which mountains were exploded for copper and gold in the fifth millennium BC

    The Balkan and Carpathian
  • When it appeared peoples from the Eurasian steppes in central and northern Europe

    Third millennium BC
  • Star carr (archaeological discoveries)

    Remains of a brushwood platform, a wooden paddle, and evidence of seasonal patterns of exploitation.
  • When became England separated from the European continent

    6500 BC
  • What were the environmental consequences of global warming

    Tundra becomes deciduous forest, drowning of land, new ecological niche, formation of the North Sea
  • When are the earliest cemeteries in northern and Eastern Europe dated.

    10th millennium BCE
  • Olenii Ostrov (Karelia, Russia)

    300 burials; (Northern) elk effigies; (southern) human and snake figurines (reflecting social identity)

    Some of the burials in upright or standing position, were those of ritual specialists or shaman's (indicating social differentiation)
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