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Reflection on Unit 2 test

Prehistory and Early humans

Describe how you prepared/ studied for the unit test.

(A) Do you think your studying strategies were effective- why/not

• I think the strategy i use is really affective and i have used this method on many other classes other then Humanities. My strategy is to read the answers out load and then change the answers into my own word so that i remember them for a while. 

(B) How will you prepare next time?

• I will probably use the method i am using right now and i told you what it is above. 

What was the most surprising thing you learned about this unit?

• I would choose the Taming Fire unit because i was surprised that the Homo would go up to the forest fire without being scared and will go to it with a big stick and then the stick would be on fire, and then he would bring it to his camp site, to light his fire. 

If we had more time to spend on Prehistory+ Early Humans- what would you want to learn more about?

• I would like to learn more about Grunts and Grammar because i didn't find that much information on it and it would really be cool if we went into more detail and into videos about it and then i would really get a good incite on it. 

Hobbits!!!!!

Who are Hobbits?

• Who are hobbits, Hobbits are little people that are the hight of a four you old and they might have lived 1 million years ago, 3 million years ago or 12,000 years ago all of these presuppositions are by scientist and archeologists. In 2003, paleontologists went into a cave called Liang Bua on an island of Flores in Indonesia and found evidence of a population of tiny ancestral humans. 
• Scientists say that the tiny people suffered from microcphaly, a genetic disorder that produces an abnormally small brain and head. The hobbits had a wrist like an apes, there shoulder blades shrug slightly forward, feet long and flat.
• So as you can see hobbits might have been really smart like the Homo sapiens.  

Tool making and Language!

Why was tool making and language important for the development of human culture?

• Language and culture was important to us and the people of the past because with out language we wouldn't be able to talk and share our feeling with each other, if we didn't have language i think it be really weird and really hard to communicate. Language developed because it gave us the chance to talk, to discus and to argue or show your point of view, like with the Homo erectus they had a way to communicate and so they became closer and the way the became closer was because of fire, will they waited for the meal to wait they talked between one another. With tool making people were able to hunt, cut, break and other stuff. When we first got tools we used them to hunt animals and to cut them up so they could eat them. But now we use different type of tools like forks or knifes and spoons we mostly use these tools more then the spears and sharp rocks. But if we didn't have tools i think all of us would be dead because back with the Homo erectus and the others if they didn't have tools and fire i think they would have gotten attacked by the bigger animals and killed all of us and then we would have never got to this stage in life. 

Hominids and why the started to walk!

Why did early humans begin to walk?

There are tons of reasons why they started to walk and i will run you through a couple of them,

• So early humans first lived in the forest of Africa where they walked on fours but after a while the forest started to change to long grass and desert, so the early humans thought it might be easier if they could look over the grass and see in there are any predators or to see in theres food or not. Scientist say early humans started to try standing up in the forest and after the forest changed they used the two legs.
• Another theory is a sexual related one, scientist think that early human changed to impress the females because the men could stand up and they looked cooler, they also think they changed because they could carry more for the females because when the females have the baby the men go out for food, so with the ability to walk on two legs they could carry more and they could reach for higher thing like apples in the trees.
• Another theory is that they got the two legs so that the could move across the savanna and they could move fast a go across more ground in a faster period, but some scientist disagree with this and they say on four legs you can move faster because a horse it has four legs and it moves a lot faster then a human and horses are better climber up mountains then humans. So scientists are arguing over this, but i think it is better to have two legs because we can move better around rocks and we can walk faster over the rocks then a horse 

Taming Fire

Q: How does the use of fire demonstrate prehistoric peoples ability to adapt to there environment?

A: Fire was a big step in our human lives and fire has help us adapt. Fire has help the people cook food, provide light at night and also fight of predators when they decide to attack and steel there stuff. Fire is really special for us human other then the stuff i wrote above, fire provides use with warmth and it helps use build stuff like swords in the mid evil times with king author and all the others, fire use so help provide horses with horse shoes so that they dont hurt there feet. So as you can see fire has help us greatly and helped adapt.       

Reflection for Unit #1 Understanding History + Archaeology

(1) What did you learn?
I learned different types of ways that archaeologists use to investigate and learn thing about an item like pottery or something else like that.

(2) What did you find most interesting?
What i mound most interesting was when we were learning about the foot prints and cave paintings, because we watch videos for the foot prints and read cool books on them. For the cave painting i wanted to learn more about them since i watch the movie "Brother Bear" and when we started to learn about them i got really excited to go ahead and learn about them.

(3) What learning skills were you able to practice = hw?
When we were doing this project i got a lot better in note taking and i also got a lot better at reading in short periods of time. I also always did my hw because i was interested in it and i thought that it might teach me more.

(4) What did you learn about yourself?
What i learned about my self was that i am not only a sport guy but i also really like learning about the past and seeing what they did in there daily life.

Humanities

Rafaelo Infante

7A

Oct 25, 2010

Stonehenge is located in Wiltshire, England. Stonehenge is a huge set of 3 concentric circles, or rings. The outer ring is filled with the remains of the people of the past, the middle ring has upright rocks, and the innermost ring has blue stones. Archaeologists think that Stonehenge was built around 2500 BC. The hardest part for archaeologist is to find out why Stonehenge was built.

There are numerous theories about the history of Stonehenge. Three of these theories that I am going to show seem to be the most realistic and they are the best supported by scientific research. 

The first theory is discussed in a March 2009 Time magazine article by Dan Fletcher. In his article Fletcher says that one of the most widely accepted theories is credited to astronomer Gerald Hawkins. Hawkins believed that Stonehenge was built over more than a thousand years beginning in 3100BC. He thought that Stonehenge was an “ancient astronomical calendar.”

Stonehenge, Hawkins said, helped ancient people know when an eclipse would come, or the time of equinox (Equal night and day) and solstice (Longest day, longest night). One reason Hawkins and other people think that Stonehenge helped people know when a eclipse was coming is because at the break of dawn on special days a ray from the sun hits right in the middle of Stonehenge and then all the blue stones start to glisten. But if this theory is true then the people of that time must have known where the sun would hit and so they must have known the exact place to build Stonehenge.

A second theory presented by Mike Parker Peorson of the University of Sheffield, UK believes that Stonehenge was a place for the dead. Pearson and other people think this because the outer ring has holes and in those holes archaeologist have found cremated people. Peorson also argues that the fact that  stones are hard and don’t have any life, as compared to Woodhenge, a near by site where the remains of a living community were found. At Woodhenge all the living people stayed and had their homes made out of wood which is a living thing. 

The third theory is presented by Mendhak.com is a website dedicated to information about the paranormal.  According to Mendak.com Stonehenge was a place of sacrifice because in the very center there is a flat stone that has puddles of water at the bottom of which there is red paint or blood. So Mendak.com and other people think that that flat stone might have been used to sacrifice people. The ancient people might have gotten this idea to sacrifice because of the Aztecs, and they might have been sacrificing to send their souls to the gods. 

Conclusion: I think that the most reasonable theory is the dead and living theory because some people do think a rock is as hard and non- living kind of like when somebody dies. So they buried the dead there unlike in Woodhenge where the living lived with things that used to be alive like wood. I also think that it is a good theory because on the outer ring of the Stonehenge they found cremated people which mean there are ashes, so it must have been a place of the dead.