The first peoples How does culture rise from forest to farm?

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The South-up Map

The World 1. List everything you see that is “wrong” with the map above. 2. Share with a partner or small group, then discuss with the class your small group’s findings.

The first peoples How does culture rise from forest to farm?

South-Up Ethnocentrism Blue Marble Fuller’s Map Fishbone Tolkien Humans Sagan Calendar Periods Matrix Matrix Answers Issues of change

Is your map ethnocentric? What are the issues with it?

Your map is racist!1. Why do people argue that the

Mercator Projection map promotes white supremacy, imperialism, racism?

2. After reading this do you feel that schools need to change their maps? Do you think your racial ethnic identity plays a role in how you see this issue?

collapse map

The first peoples How does culture rise from forest to farm?

South-Up Ethnocentrism Blue Marble Fuller’s Map Fishbone Tolkien Humans Sagan Calendar Periods Matrix Matrix Answers Issues of change

• World maps showing: the modern definition of the North-South divide

• The OSCE is the world's largest security-oriented intergovernmental organization

• Countries described as high-income and advanced economies by the World Bank and IMF

The Blue Marble photograph in its original orientation

The first peoples How does culture rise from forest to farm?

South-Up Ethnocentrism Blue Marble Fuller’s Map Fishbone Tolkien Humans Sagan Calendar Periods Matrix Matrix Answers Issues of change

Buckminster Fuller’s Dymaxion map

The first peoples How does culture rise from forest to farm?

South-Up Ethnocentrism Blue Marble Fuller’s Map Fishbone Tolkien Humans Sagan Calendar Periods Matrix Matrix Answers Issues of change

Using a herringbone or fishbone diagram to understand cause and effect

IshikawaWhat

creates divisiveness

? • Identify at least four “causes” that contribute to the problem. Connect these four causes with arrows to the spine. These will create the first bones of the fish.

• Brainstorm around each “cause” to document those things that contributed to the cause. Use the 5 Whys or another questioning process such as the 4P’s (Policies, Procedures, People and Plant) to keep the conversation focused.

• Continue breaking down each cause until the root causes have been identified.

The first peoples How does culture rise from forest to farm?

South-Up Ethnocentrism Blue Marble Fuller’s Map Fishbone Tolkien Humans Sagan Calendar Periods Matrix Matrix Answers Issues of change

A diverse family tree full of bizarre ancestors and cousins, like something out of a Tolkien novel

Trying to become human: From a million years ago to around 70,000 years ago the world was like a Tolkien novel – different species of humans living at the same time, trying to win the prize of being “top human.”Early hominids (also includes our common ancestor with chimps)

Early hominin Archaic human Neanderthal “Hobbit” AMH die out around 70k ya appear 500k ya

The first peoples How does culture rise from forest to farm?

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Understanding our place in time and history, Carl Sagan

The Cosmic Calendar is a method to visualize the chronology of the universe, scaling its current age of 13.8 billion years to a single year in order to help intuition in for pedagogical purposes in science education or popular science.

The first peoples How does culture rise from forest to farm?

South-Up Ethnocentrism Blue Marble Fuller’s Map Fishbone Tolkien Humans Sagan Calendar Periods Matrix Matrix Answers Issues of change

Memory matrix of the different archaeological periods

Period Tools Economy Dwelling Clothes Society

World: Paleolithic into Mesolithic Europe and Africa: NeolithicAsia: Ancient China, Jomon, and Jeulmun potteryN & S America: Archaic period

Copper and Bronze Age

Metal tools, potter’s wheel

Civilization, craft and trade

City-states Wool, linen, silk Ethnic gods, state religion

Mumun and Yayoi periods

Pottery, weaving, slash-and-burn farming

Food production, shellfish, fishing, rice paddy fields

Villages, pit-houses

Silk, weaves, cotton, cloaks and robes

Regional gods, shamanism, animism Formative

periodWoodland period

The first peoples How does culture rise from forest to farm?

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Completed memory matrix of the different archaeological periods

Period Tools Economy Dwelling Clothes Society

World: Paleolithic into Mesolithic

Chopper, handaxe, and scraper

Hunting and gathering

Nomadic: caves and huts

Animal skins Bands of 25 – 100; burial and ancestor worship

Europe and Africa: Neolithic

Harpoon, bow and arrow, pottery, loom, hoe, chisel; potter’s wheel; awls, knives

Hunting and gathering, fishing villages, pre-farming to farming

Semi-permanent to permanent: temporary villages to walled cities

Animal skins, wool, woven vegetable materials

Tribes to chiefdoms; shamanism to polytheism Asia: Ancient

China, Jomon, and Jeulmun potteryN & S America: Archaic period

Copper and Bronze Age

Metal tools, potter’s wheel

Civilization, craft and trade

City-states Wool, linen, silk Ethnic gods, state religion

Mumun and Yayoi periods

Pottery, weaving, slash-and-burn farming

Food production, shellfish, fishing, rice paddy fields

Villages, pit-houses

Silk, weaves, cotton, cloaks and robes

Regional gods, shamanism, animism Formative

periodWoodland period

The first peoples How does culture rise from forest to farm?

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The Issue of Change

1. Why is change so difficult for us? Why do struggle to adapt to change?

2. Between issues with our map system and our timeline system, why do we struggle with updating to a less ethnocentric model?

3. Why can’t we adopt the metric system?

What keeps us grounded in tradition and unable to make lasting changes?