Stone Age Paradise

50 000 BP - 10 000 BP

During this time, there's e.g. different roles of gender, economic system and society. However, it has been called the stone age paradise. 

Stone Age ParadiseWhy idealized the Stone Age? Simply because it has being pointed to be a paradise!

• Absense of major conflict (no evidence of war that took place) If it happened, it would have been mass graves, dead bodies left behind, burried. You would have find evidence of that. No human injury. Very little evidence of major conflict in the Stone Age.
• But logical! Hunter gatherer, nomadic, and semi nomatic - what would they gain by fighting with each other? --> Nothing!

Nomadic - you don't live in the same place the whole year., you travel e.g. with the animals to another place. 

Semi nomadic - live on 2 places, one in the summer and one in the winter.

Sami people is an example os nomadic living people - the follow their reindeers.

When do we start fighting? --> When they stop being nomadic and start agriculture, and want to gather more land! A matter of life and death to defende that piece of land!

• Egalatarian Society
• People are equal (--> hint the burrials)

• Female Power
• It is women that has the highest status.
• Hunter gatherer 

• Economic system!!! Something unique to the stone age, doesn't happen today and probably not in the future.