SCIENCE, TECHNOLOGY AND SOCIETY YEAR SEM

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LESSON 1: EVIDENCE OF SCIENCE TECHNOLOGY

This era was divided into three separated

periods:
OUTLINE
Paleolithic Period ( early )
I. Introduction MesolithicPeriod (middle)
II. The Dawn Of The First Civilization
III. Man’s Achievements Neolithic Period (new)
IV. Evidence Of Science And Technology During
V. Pre-Historic Times Stone Age FOUR FUNDAMENTAL TRADITIONS
VI. Bronze Age
VII. Iron Age
VIII. References PALEOLITHIC ANCESTORS)

1. Pebble Tool Tradition

INTRODUCTION
First civilizations emerged independent of one
another along fertile river valleys in
Mesopatamia ( TigrisEuphrates) Egypt (Nile),
China ( Huang Ho valley) and India. People of
each civilization developed a unique way of
life, religion, form of government, language
and system of writing, arts and crafts,
advances of science and technology;
astronomy, agriculture, medicine,
mathematics, engineering and architecture.
They grew plants and domesticated
animals and settled down in places.
MAN’S ACHIEVEMENTS
(a) Discovery- recognition and
observation of new objects.
(b) Invention- mental process wherein
man’s various discoveries, observation and
experience are put together to produce new
ways and means of obtaining things.
STONE AGE
This period was marked by which stone was
widely used to make tools and implements.
Dated roughly 3.4 million years ago in about
8000 BC.
2. Bifacial Tool or Hand Axed Tradition
3. Flake Tool Tradition
4. Blade-Tool Tradition
TOOLKITS MADE BY EARLY HUMAN
Oldowan toolkit consist of hammer stones
that show battering on their surfaces.
Hand axes are cutting tools as well as other
kinds of large cutting tools are characteristic
of an Acheulean toolkit. (MIDDLE STONE
AGE)
MIDDLE STONE AGE TOOLKITS
Included points, which could be hafted on the
shafts to make spears. When smaller were
eventually made, they were attached to
smaller, sleeker shafts to make darts, arrows
and other projectile weapons.
NEOLITHIC (NEW STONE AGE)
Neolithic was characterized primarily by
herding societies as well as bronze smelting,
adoption of agriculture the shift from gathering
to food producing development of pottery
using sediments and clay.

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The BRONZE AGE is the second principal
period of the three age stone bronze iron
system and generally followed the Neolithic
period. This period is marked with the
beginning of mining and metallurgy.

IRON AGE

Is the period of time in prehistory when the

dominant tool making materials was iron.
Meteoric iron has been used by humans since
3200 BC.

REFERENCES

Nicolas (2024) Ethics - - Lesso 1 [PPT].

Notes from the discussion of Mrs. Ma.

Lourdes Nicolas

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