The Stone Age in human prehistory also referred to as the Paleolithic Period, is the period between about 2.7 million and 10,000 years ago...
The Paleolithic period begins in Africa with the earliest human-like behaviors of crude stone tool manufacture about 2.7 million years ago and ends with the development of fully modern human hunting and gathering societies.
Softschools.com:
The Neolithic Era, also known as the New Stone Age, was the time after the stone or ice age and before the Copper Age in some areas and the Bronze Age in others. Depending on the region, the era ran from around 9,000 B.C. to about 3,000 B.C...New World Encyclopedia:
The Neolithic Era will be remembered as the major transition from the hunting, gathering, and wandering groups to the agricultural communities and the domestication of animals.
The earliest evidence for established trade exists in the Neolithic with newly settled people importing exotic goods over distances of many hundreds of miles.
Uh-oh. If we put the concepts "writing" and "civilization" together, we're suggesting that a time of "little or no writing" might be a "dark age". And that seems to be a no-no, as Britannica says that it implies a "pejorative" "value judgment" about "intellectual darkness and barbarity."
I really don't understand the objection. It is not a pejorative value judgment to say that a time of economic vigor is better than a recession.
I object to Britannica's objection on the grounds that it impedes thinking in terms of the Cycle of Civilization.
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I think you can't take that kind of thing too seriously. Heather is into that stuff, too. I just ignore it. Worked so far!
Jerry, By "that kind of thing" you mean Britannica's objection... Maybe someone should tell Britannica not to take it so seriously!
PS,
I thought that not taking the E.U. seriously would be harmless. But 25 years later, everyone seems to think of the EU as natural, and everyone under 40 takes it for normal. In that environment, an attempt to end the experiment (like Brexit) is widely taken as a form of insanity.
Waiting it out (or ignoring it) is not harmless and is unlikely to work.
You're probably right. I thought that about fox news and facebook too...
Hey. For no reason I googled 'heroic age'. I found The Heroic Age (journal). The article says:
"The Heroic Age: A Journal of Early Medieval Northwestern Europe is a peer-reviewed academic journal... The title of the journal, The Heroic Age, refers to the early medieval period..."
Apparently it is okay to call the early medieval period "heroic" but not okay to call it "dark".
To me, a non-pejorative value judgement is not better science than a pejorative value judgement, particularly of those value judgements are only implied.
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