Take one Paleolithic society. How did it differ from the ones around it, and how did it change over time?
Your task: take one society and focus on it. What was it like? What was the timeline of the society? How would you describe the changes and progress or regression?
Tertiary sources about specific regions or societies
Secondary source about specific regions or societies
To what extent (how much) did gender roles early agricultural societies differ from those of the Paleolithic era?
Your Task: compare and contrast family relationships, gender roles, and economic systems of the two eras, make a judgement on how different they really were (or not!)
Topic-targeted sources -- Use these first!
Background/tertiary
Gender stereotypes from the Stone Age (Unizeit)
Neolithic (Britannica)
Paleolitic Period (Britannica)
Gender roles in the Paleolithic
“Paleolithic societies” (Khan Academy) – (2 good paragraphs on Paleolthic gender roles)
“The Theory That Men Evolved to Hunt and Women Evolved to Gather Is Wrong” (Scientific American)
“Woman the hunter: The archaeological evidence” – (American Anthropologist – original research from the Scientific American article above)
Exploring Gender Variation through Time and Space (European Journal of Archeology) – multiple articles in one, use keyword searching (control or command + F) to help narrow down the best articles/ pages to read
Gender roles in the Neolithic
A Woman's Share in Neolithic Society (Near Eastern Archaeology)
Grave goods show gendered roles for Neolithic farmers (University of York)
Modern gender roles and agricultural history: the Neolithic inheritance (JSTOR)
Gender inequality emerged during the Neolithic, new study finds(ZME Science) – This is a summary. Click the link at the bottom for the link to the PDF of the full study.
The period of 600 BCE - 600 CE saw the emergence of many powerful “second-wave” empires in places such as Persia, Greece, China, India, and the Americas. Select three empires, then argue what you believe are the THREE most significant similarities and the THREE most significant differences between them. Explain your analysis and what caused those similarities and differences.
To what extent (how much) did ancient Australian myths and rock art serve similar purposes?
Sources for this project are in the PDF and links below. Check them out!
1) https://www.britannica.com/topic/Australian-Aboriginal/Traditional-sociocultural-patterns
2)An 8-minute video on the history of Australia in general https://youtu.be/UKHehoqz34A?si=a3JHMxnjnRkA7xCk
3) This reading from Brittanica Kids on Dreamtime https://kids.britannica.com/students/article/The-Dreaming/321802