(par 5.1.1) San hunter-gatherer society in the Later Stone Age
Lived off the environment The earliest hunter-gatherers in southern Africa were the San people. They mostly survived by hunting Gemsbok and other antelope and gathering plants. Hunter-gatherer societies hunt, fish and gather wild plants to survive. They also move around from place to place, following a nomadic way of life. Sources: www.phiva.co.za The invention of the […]
(par 5.1.0) Human Impact on the Environment (taken from wikipedia)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Human_impact_on_the_environment From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia The ecosystem of public parks often includes humans feeding the wildlife. Human impact on the environment or anthropogenic impact on the environment includes impacts on biophysical environments, biodiversity, and other resources.[1][2] The term anthropogenic designates an effect or object resulting from human activity. The term was first used in the technical sense by Russian geologist Alexey Pavlov, and […]
(par 5.1.0) Anthropocene (taken from wikipedia)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anthropocene From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia The Anthropocene is an informal geologic chronological term for the proposed epoch that began when human activities had a significant global impact on the Earth‘s ecosystems.[1] The term—which appears to have been used by Russian scientists at least as early as the 1960s[2] to refer to the Quaternary, the most recent geological Period—was coined with a different sense in the […]