what was the roll of the men and women in the paleolithic and neolithic era compared to the present?
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Actually we know just a little about it. Probably, as we see in the modern primitive groups still living, women usually collected plants and men hunted the animals. The life of the society was mostly depended on women's efforts in the earlier parts of Paleolithic I believe. Because there was not very much hunting since the Middle Paleolithic. \n\nIn the Upper Paleolithic Europe (35,000 years ago) there are some Venus figurines which reflects huge women. The same period, some male figurines also existed in Eastern Europe. But I believe further excavations will shed light into the Venus figurines problematic.\n\nFor the Neolithic, it has been thought that there was a Female Goddess. Figurines from Catalhoyuk (in Turkey), made people think of that. Recent researches in Anatolia, mostly in the southeast of Turkey, proved that before Catalhoyuk times (Pre-Pottery Neolithic) there were many statuettes of male figures. So sex of the Neolithic deity changes with the transition from PPN to Pottery Neolithic. But in western parts of Neolithic culture, like Balkans, figurines dating to the Neolithic, mostly has no sex identification. \n\nWe can not say that women or men had a special "sacrified" role in these times (both Neo and Paleo). \n\nWe can only say in farming villages (who still live like Neolithic age) their roles are different (I am talking about farming villages that produces cereals like wheat). The man usually work only in summer and women always does most of the housework all the time.
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Neanderthals looked very different from homo sapiens.  There was some interbreeding, but eventually they were wiped out altogether by the ancestors of the Europeans. More especially, the Danes and Germans.\n\nOccasionally you can see some vestiges of the Neanderthal type in a few people.\n\nShould be considered two species from my point of view, but I am not an anthropologist.\n\nAny ordinary person can see substantial differences in skull structure and bone thicknesses, if nothing more detailed.
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According to the US Department of Labor:\n\nIn May 2004, anthropologists and archaeologists had median annual earnings of $43,890
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poele at home during WW1 were forsed to sacrafice food and time. women took mens jobs, and children had to work. a lot of oil and money we're used and lives were lost
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well methodical scientist have traced the location of Eden back to Egypt along with the very first case of homo-erectus (i know, it sounds gross doesn't it?) so if Adam and eve were in fact the first man and woman they were tan just as the Egyptians are.
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there is some info here \n\nhttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prehistoric_fish
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Are you actually asking what farming techniques have changed since people were digging in the ground with stones to today's modern methods?  \n\nThis is the subject of an entire book, not something that can be answered on Yahoo Answers!\n\nYou can go to www.wikipedia.org and type in "farming", that's about as much help as I can give you without quitting my job and doing this full-time!
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An analysis of Neanderthal DNA and mitochondria a few years ago seems to indicate that there is no Neanderthal-specific DNA continuing on in our present day population.\n\nThis does not mean they did not mate, of course. We know the two species knew each other and even communicated: Neanderthals of the later eras changed from the standard Mousterian toolmaking technique to a later technology known as chatelperronian - which is a hybrid of their own techniques and that of the "Cro Magnon" modern humans.\n\nAlso, there appears, for a time, to have been a population of people that had some Neanderthal features and some modern ones, suggesting intermarriage.\n\nhttp://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/sci/tech/323657.stm\n\nHowever, as I said, it does not appear that any of their DNA has survived into our modern era.
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Actually, you are just about right. I heard it's a natural adaptation from the hunter-gatherer times. Tribes had to move often, in order to follow the animals in their migrations. Pregnancies meant they had to stop for the mother to give birth. So, women's cycles were aligned in order to save time. The process is triggered by hormones. When one woman becomes fertile the others will follow.
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The details here wander a bit from the original question.  There is probably some truth to your assertion that many of the things which fundamentalists oppose are "modern."  At the same time, you ought to recognize that there are many social changes/movements which have been marketed as "progress" but are just change-for-the-sake-of-change.  (And that kind of "modernity" deserves to be opposed.)\n\nIt's patently unfair and untrue to say that "traditional gender roles . . . are more detrimental than helpful to society."  Some parts of those roles might be detrimental, but some are quite helpful.  As to the idea of equal involvement, in many respects this is desireable.  But, we probably ought not to ignore that there are real biological, biochemical, and developmental differences between men/women, boys/girls.\n\nAs to the original question, you probably know that you've committed the logical fallacy of the "loaded question."  You have offered no proof that fundamentalist Christian opinions about homosexuality are based in fear.  Your question insists that to be a fact and then wants to go forward from there.  But, without any proof of this underlying assumption, your question can't really be addressed.
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smaller, a lot smaller\nactually, the average foot size for women about one hundred years ago was like a four, and because of better nutrition and a number of other factors, womens feet have grown to be an average of a size eight.  i'm assuming that it is the same for men, and that they could have been even smaller the farther back in time you go
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Paleolithic period (pā"lēulith'ik, –lēō–, păl"–) [key] or Old Stone Age,the earliest period of human development and the longest phase of mankind's history. It is approximately coextensive with the Pleistocene geologic epoch, beginning about 2 million years ago and ending in various places between 40,000 and 10,000 years ago, when it was succeeded by the Mesolithic period. By far the most outstanding feature of the Paleolithic period was the evolution of the human species from an apelike creature, or near human, to true Homo sapiens (see human evolution). This development was exceedingly slow and continued through the three successive divisions of the period, the Lower, Middle, and Upper Paleolithic. The most abundant remains of Paleolithic cultures are a variety of stone tools whose distinct characteristics provide the basis for a system of classification containing several toolmaking traditions or industries.\n\nThis site shows there was at least three different stages of this time period Low--Middle--And Upper class's
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The evidence is that people were doing all kinds of ceremonies very far back in time, like there are burials dated well back into the Stone Age.  If they did burials, and they did, they did pretty much the whole gamut of ceremony: crownings and inductions and religious things, and weddings.  So it would be hard to find out when the "first" one was - 30, 50, 75, 100 thousand years is a loooong time.
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yep....considering that way back in the day, things were documented like they are now...I'd say people are making things up as they go when it comes to certain things in history.
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Archeologists have about a 70% hit rate. However, it chronicals 8000 years; long before there were any jews or christians. And like a typical fish story, some details get lumped together to improve readability. Others get exagerrated to generate more powerful feedback. Some details are lost. My personal favorites are mistranslation and general ignorance.\nBear in mind: most people had hometown jobs that didn't allow  travel. A person could spend an eentire lifetime (about 40 years) within 5 miles of where he/she was born and think that that was the whole world.
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Homo habilis 2.4 Million Years Ago\nHomo erectus 1.8 MYA\nHomo ergaster 1.8 MYA\nHomo heidelbergensis 800 Thousand Years Ago\nHomo sapiens idaltu 160 TYA\nHomo floresiensis 12 TYA\nHomo neanderthalensis 250 TYA\nHomo sapiens 200 TYA
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People live MUCH longer today than back in so called "biblical days"  The average age back 2000 years ago was less than 40!