Prehistoric People

I.                  I. Words starts with neo:

a.      Neoclassical   - neoclassical ideas or art are similar to ancient Greek or Roman ideas or art

b.      Neologism    -a new word or expression, or an existing word used with a new meaning

c.       Neonatal      -relating to the first weeks of a baby’s life

d.      Neoliberal    - having or showing belief in the need for economic growth in addition to

                      traditional liberalistic values

e.       Neophyte     -a person newly converted to a religious faith

f.        Neoblastic    - Having the nature of new growth

g.       Neocene       -Belonging to the tertiary period

It is related to the idea of newness not only because of its prefix neo but also it is associated to all new ideas and reform.

II.

1.  Stonehenge is a prehistoric monuments  located in the English county of Wilthshire, about 2.0 miles (3.2 km) west of Amesbury and 8 miles (13 km) north of Salisbury. One of the most famous sites in the world, Stonehenge is composed of a circular setting of large standing stones set within earthworks. It is at the centre of the most dense complex of Neolithic and Bronze Age monuments in England, including several hundred burial mounds. Archaeologists believe the stone monument was constructed anywhere from 3000 BC to 2000 BC.. Radiocarbon dating in 2008 suggested that the first stones were erected in 2400–2200 BC, whilst another theory suggests that bluestones may have been erected at the site as early as 3000 BC

2.      Neanderthal Man. This man who appeared about 100,000 B.C. is said to be the first  of the  human species called homo sapiens. His skeletal remains, consisting of a broken skull and some bone fragment, were discovered in 1856 by some workmen in a cane of Neanderthal valley near Dusseldorf, Germany. Other bones of this species have been found in Europe and parts of Asia. He was bodily built, with powerful muscles and jaws. His brain was a little larger than that of a modern man. Although, brutish in appearance, he developed the first religious ideas and had a technology superior to that of his predecessors.

3.   Some prehistoric dwellers in Europe are Cro-Magnon and Neanderthal Man. Cro-Magnon  was discovered in  Sothern France while the remains of Neanderthal was discovered in Dusseldorf, Germany.

4.      Cro-Magnon people is a more developed species of man emerged. The remains of this prehistoric man, consisting of bones, stone implements, and art objects, were discovered in 1868 by Louis Lartet, a French archeologist, in Cro-Magnon Cave at the village of Les Eyzies, southern France. Other Cro-Magnon remains have been found in Spain, Italy, Russia, Western Asia, China, and all over Africa. The Cro-Magnon Man is about 5 feet and 11 inches in height.  He had a more developed brain than the Neanderthal Man. He wore animal skins sewn with bone needles and made fire by rubbing two dry pieces of sticks. He was a mighty hunter and good artist.  His beautiful paintings can be seen today in cave of Lascaux, Niaux and Font de Gaumme Caves in France; in Altamira, Covalanas and Las Chimneas cave, all near Santander, Spain.

5.   Peking man, also known as Sinanthropus pekinensis. The skeletal remains of the Peking Man were discovered  in 1929 by a Chinese archaeologist named Dr. Wenchungu Wei at Choukoutein Cave, about 30 miles southwest of Peking. It is said that he had a bigger brain that Java man and knew how to make fire, with which he cooked the flesh of animals he hunted. His tools and weapons were better than those of the Java man. He existed about 500,000 years ago.

6.     Java man, also known as Pithecanthropus erectus is the skeletal remains of a prehistoric man (a skull cap, a thigh bone, a piece of lower jaw, and three teeth) found in Trinil, Java. It was discovered by a Dutch physician and scientist, named Eugene Dubois. Java man existed about 1,000,000 years ago. He was about five feet tall with brain almost as large as that of modern man, a hairy body, and a heavy and chinless jaw. He walked erect.

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Paleolithic Age	Neolithic Age	Civilization
Knowledge of hunting	Cultivation of Crops	Development of Organized religion
Knowledge of tool making	Control of fire	Establishment of Villages
	Domestication of animals	Development of writing
		Establishes of cities
		Development of metal working