Chronilogical Reasoning

Chronological Reasoning

The time when the earliest human species began to evolve and spread all over earth's surface is the Paleolithic era which means this era is a very crucial and significant era in human history. Many historians find it okay to ignore some of the most important years of our human existence, as a historian says in the chapter "... Does it make sense to ignore the first 200,000 years or more of human experience?" if you ask me, it doesn't make any sense at all. We need to know how us modern day humans came to be, we need to k now how we started, how we ended up where we are. Our first societies were made during this time; don't we need to know how those began? Yes, we do. If we completely ignore our beginning, we wouldn't make sense, we'd be like a story with absolutely no beginning.

Societies differed from each other in their adaption to the environment, their spiritual beliefs, their social organization, tool kits, and a lot more. For example; The San people of southern Africa produced art on cave walls that many historians say reflects some sort of religious experience. Many societies during this time didn't seem to have cave wall painting nor religious experience of any way.

Overtime the societies began to produce more difficult tools and art, some societies even began to produce clothes. Sculptures were also created in certain areas. Also over the time Paleolithic societies changed based on the environment, their food supply and other elements. Societies began to slowly become more and more complex.

In the chapter it said "Modern scholars suggest that this art reflected the religious experience of trance healers" I consider this fact fairly uncertain, mostly because it really can't be proven, it's really more just an educated guess or assumption. As oppose to when the chapter discussed the society named Jamon they used solid facts, that mostly all can be proven.

Our modern day influence impacted our assessment of paleolithic societies more positively I believe. Because a lot of modern day people believe that today's world has gotten out of control with always relying on electronic or man-made devices. Modern day people really do believe this is all hurting our planet as oppose to the way the paleolithc people were living.