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Education

Generational heritage
Adults taught children what they
learned from their parents when they
Complex techniques were young, while also providing the
Social complexity allowed the crafting of knowledge they learned themselves
The use of tools objects that were not only aimed at strictly from their own needs.
In the Palaeolithic, one of the practical use, but had aesthetic aspects, like
first elements that mankind had the ornaments found in Catal Hüyük.
to be familiar with was stone.
They were able to use stones
as weapons to hunt and fish by
means of carving and polishing
techniques. Later on, they used
them for agriculture with the
invention of the plough.

Learning through practice
The child would observe how the adult fished. Polishing stones
Gradually, the child would contribute to the job with The child would try to polish stones
his help, trying to do it by himself, and eventually by copying what the adult had done,
teaching his own children when he grew up. who provided guidance and help.
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