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paleolithic

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  • old stone age

- hunter/gatherers

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mesoltihic

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  • 15-20 thousand years ago
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Neolithic

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  • new stone age
  • around 10 thousand years ago
  • birth of agriculture
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ice age

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  • ended around 15,000 years ago

- began around 110,000 years ago

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agriculture

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  • around 10-15 thousand years ago farming began
  • animals domesticated
  • carrying capacity was around 10 million people at the end of the last ice age
  • population exploded form 10-250 million
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note

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  • anatomically modern humans emerged 200,000 years ago

- human brain wasn’t as developed as it is now

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