PDF-[BOOK]-The Substance of Civilization Materials and Human History from the Stone Age to

The story of human civilization can be read most deeply in the materials we have found or created used or abused They have dictated how we build eat communicate wage war create art travel and worship Some such as stone iron and bronze lend their names to the ages Others such as gold silver and diamond contributed to the rise and fall of great empires How would history have unfolded without glass paper steel cement or gunpowderThe impulse to master the properties of our material world and to invent new substances has remained unchanged from the dawn of time it has guided and shaped the course of history Sass shows us how substances and civilizations have evolved together In antiquity iron was considered more precious than gold The celluloid used in movie film had its origins in the search for a substitute for ivory billiard balls The same clay used in the pottery of antiquity has its uses in todays computer chipsMoving from the Stone Age to the Age of Silicon from the days of prehistoric survival to the cutting edge of nanotechnology this fascinating and accessible book connects the worlds of minerals and molecules to the sweep of human history and shows what materials will dominate the century ahead. Ancient Greece. Greece – Bronze age. Origins of civilization. Prehistory. History. Greece – Bronze age. Origins of civilization. Prehistory. Includes Paleolithic and other . prehistorical. categories. Paleolithic and Neolithic Ages. Bell Ringer. Group A. What do you see? . What do you think these footprints feel like? . Group B. Write a one-paragraph (4-6 sentences). . story about the person who left these footprints.. i. Beginnings – reformation. August 30: Beginnings. Beginnings. Mesopotamia. Egypt. Beginnings. History of civilization: how to date?. Definition of “text”. Hunter/gatherer vs. producer/settler. Josh and Oscar and . Keira. and Charlie Platt. . What did they eat. The stone age people ate edible plants such as stinging nettles, dandelions and herbs. they also gathered hard nuts and juicy, red berries.. Why . might people in the Stone Age have . needed. tools . and weapons? . What . would they be . used. for. ? . In the . Palaeolithic. period, or early stone age, humans developed great skill at fashioning beautiful tools such as hand axes.. Topic 4.2.9 – 4.2.10. 2. characteristics. some elements from group 4 are . giant. molecules. carbon and silicon . insoluble in almost all solvents. h. igh melting and boiling points. Carbon allotropes . (The Neolithic Era). 6,000 to 12,000 years ago. The New Stone Age (The Neolithic Era). During the . Neolithic Era. , people began to settle in one place.. Review Questions!. 1. How is Neolithic culture different from Paleolithic? . AGH University of Science and Technology. . Faculty of Physics and Applied Computer Science, . Kraków. , Poland. Jagiellonian. . Symposium. 2015 7-12/06/2015. Silicon wafer. www.guardian.co.uk. http://. mrsec.wisc.edu. en.wikipedia.org. Wafers are cut from . boules. , . which are large . logs . of uniform . silicon.. Looking at this picture, . where. do you think silicon . E. arly Civilization. Chapter 1. What is prehistory?. The things that happened to humans before their was written records.. It is a lot like a vast black space penetrated by only an occasional pinpoint of light, representing our current knowledge.. What makes a civilization tick?. How do we determine what IS a civilization?. Cities. People live together in groups and all contribute in some way. Cities serve a function with a common government and organization. Meso = means middle. Refers to any cultures that lived in present-day Mexico & Central America. Olmec Civilization. One of the earliest Mesoamerican civilizations. Located near Gulf of Mexico. Knowledge of them comes from excavations of 2 main sites = San Lorenzo and La Venta . Off-Axis Left Side -108 225---I -733- 0 125 Front 1150 a 25 Notes Manufactured by Uahock Ltd Gormey ON Risi Stone Systems A Division of Rothbury International Inc / tLe Fare Office Tower 8500 Leslie S Heldal, T., Carvalho, J., . Dedić. , Ž. and . Laskardis. , K. . GeoERA - RAW MATERIALS. Partners. WP Leads. Project . Lead. GeoERA - RAW MATERIALS. Eurolithos. . coverage. Countries. in Europe .