I am really taken aback with all the reading material involved in the Paleolithic Era. It is astonishing because there are so many questions that yet many scholars cannot answer and as a reader I have so many similar questions also. In everyday living, I hardly look back or stop and think about where certain methods, devices, or customs come from and this reading really takes me there. For example, the fire burring method of keeping crop and vegetation limited so it will not outgrow or over consume the natives. In addition, the way agriculture presented beer and wine also was quite entertaining to read about. I am sure my husband does not even have a clue about the historical component of such a social drink. (p.39)
I was surprised to read about the way agriculture was accepted by many groups but nonetheless there was some pushback in other groups. Their reason was to keep the ways of the Paleolithic ancestors. If only these groups could have seen the transition and methods of doing things now. In class MS Andrews asked the question about what may be the next era called or referred to. It is hard to imagine since the beginning of time, homo sapiens once stepped foot on ground compared to the living conditions now. I compare it to the method of gender selection via alternative methods for conceiving and forming families in the present days. If only those ancestors could have imagined that!
In the Agriculture progress, the leader in a new formation I enjoyed reading about the Egyptian comparison to other groups in Mesopotamia. I kept thinking of Cleopatra and how she was a ver common female figure and made sense that in Egypt, women were treated as equal to men. The women's role differed that to men in other groups and they were even allowed to have more opportunity in the ownership of property, file for divorce, and sell land. All these things that we can do so openly and freely now. I am quite impressed with what was taught to us so long ago and look forward to reading more.
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