sts midterm

• Science


  The systematic study of the structure and behavior of the physical and natural world through observation, experimentation, and the testing of theories against the evidence obtained
• Science


  A systematically organized body of knowledge on a particular subject
• Science


  Knowledge of any kind
• Technology


  The application of scientific knowledge for practical purposes, especially in industry
• Technology


  Machinery and equipment developed from the application of scientific knowledge
• Technology


  The branch of knowledge dealing with engineering or applied sciences
• Society


  The aggregate of people living together in a more or less ordered community
• Society


  An organization or club formed for a particular purpose or activity
• Society


  A community, nation, or broad grouping of people having common traditions, institutions, and collective activities and interests
• Three-age system


  • A system of classifying ancient ages into groups based on tool developmental stages
• Scientific revolution


  • Period of great scientific intellectual achievements that contributed to essential changes in investigations
• Industrial Revolution


  • Period of complex technological inventions that eventually replaced human and animal force
• Information age


  • The period characterized by the change from traditional industry to an economy that is founded on computerization of information
• Three-age system


  1. Stone Age

  2. Bronze Age

  3. Iron Age
• Stone Age


  Period of weapons made of stone, wood, or some other materials aside from metals
• Stone Age


  1. Palaeolithic

  2. Mesolithic

  3. Neolithic
• Palaeolithic


  The earliest Palaeolithic period marked the age of human evolution and was characterized by the development of simple tools
• Lower Palaeolithic tools


  • Stone choppers
  • Stone tools made by Homo erectus
• Middle Palaeolithic


  Cultural development involving the Neanderthal man, who used fire, stone tools, and bone implements
• Upper Palaeolithic


  Dominated by Homo sapiens groups, known for communal hunting, extensive fishing, supernatural beliefs, cloth sewing, sculpture, painting, and making personal ornaments
• Science


  The systematic study of the structure and behavior of the physical and natural world through observation, experimentation, and the testing of theories against the evidence obtained
• Science


  A systematically organized body of knowledge on a particular subject
• Science


  Knowledge of any kind
• Technology


  The application of scientific knowledge for practical purposes, especially in industry
• Technology


  Machinery and equipment developed from the application of scientific knowledge
• Technology


  The branch of knowledge dealing with engineering or applied sciences
• Society


  The aggregate of people living together in a more or less ordered community
• Society


  An organization or club formed for a particular purpose or activity
• Society


  A community, nation, or broad grouping of people having common traditions, institutions, and collective activities and interests
• Three-age system


  • A system of classifying ancient ages into groups based on tool developmental stages
• Scientific revolution


  • Period of great scientific intellectual achievements that contributed to essential changes in investigations
• Industrial Revolution


  • Period of complex technological inventions that eventually replaced human and animal force
• Information age


  • The period characterized by the change from traditional industry to an economy that is founded on computerization of information
• Three-Age System


  1. Originally formulated to classify artifacts in the possession of the museum based on the materials to which they were made of

  2. Gave birth to the three chronologically successive prehistorical periods: Stone, Bronze and Iron Ages

  3. Dating is very approximate
• Stone Age


  The period of weapons made of stone, wood, or some other materials aside from metals
• Palaeolithic ("old stone") Period

  1. Began approximately two million years ago and ended between 40,000 to 10,000 years ago

  2. Humans evolved from an ape-like creature to a true Homo sapiens

  3. Hunter-gatherers who used tools made of stones, flints, bones and even antlers

  4. Gradually from a single, all-purpose artifact to a collection of different highly specialized tools each serving a specific function

  5. People used to live in small bands and were either nomadic or seminomadic
• Lower Palaeolithic Period


  • Marked the age of human evolution and was characterized by the development of simple tools
  • Included stone choppers made more than a million year ago by Australopithecus
  • Also comprised 100,000- to 500,000-year-old stone tools made by Homo erectus
• Middle Palaeolithic Period


  • Encompassed the cultural development involving Neanderthal man, who existed 40,000-100,000 years ago
  • Neanderthals were cavemen who used fire, stone tools of flake types for hunting, and bone implements such as needles for sewing body coverings made of animal furs and skins
  • Evidence of painting the dead before burial suggested religious practice
• Upper Palaeolithic Period


  • Dominated by various cultures of Homo sapiens groups (e.g. Cro-Magnon man, Grimaldi man, etc.)
  • Known for communal hunting, extensive fishing, supernatural beliefs, cloth sewing, sculpture, painting, and making personal ornaments out of bones, horns, and ivory
  • First manmade dwellings called pit houses were built
  • Various late Palaeolithic tools were discovered including flint and obsidian projectile points and blades and other highly refined weapons
  • Palaeolithic art arose after cave walls were decorated with carvings and paintings
• Mesolithic ("middle stone") Period


  • Involved the gradual change in the way humans lived due to the retreat of glaciers and growth of forests and deserts
  • People began to learn fishing along rivers and lake shores, make poetry and use bow
  • Gradual transition from food gathering to agriculture or food production
  • Made use of stone tools known as microliths which comparatively smaller and more delicate than those of Palaeolithics