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Complex Culture: The Iceman, Cave People

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What a culture leaves behind can tell you a lot about their daily lives and much more. From Simple to complex, we can learn a lot about the cultures of the past. The Iceman, Cave people, and, King tut all lived in different times and places, but they all left behind artifacts. The Iceman and king tut had a complex society while the cave people had a more simple society. The Iceman was frozen in time, as if someone had pressed the pause button. When scientist found his body and tools, it looked like he had just laid them down yesterday. The Iceman, nicknamed Ötzi by the locals, had been carrying tools and weapons such as a cooper axle and a six foot bow with a quiver made of deer skin and arrows, also a stone knife. He left leather …show more content…

He left gold chariots thrones. Also alabaster vases and strange black shrines . There were life sized statues and also beautiful furniture. King tut was in a complex society because of all of the beautiful details.they had wheels and inlaid thrones made of gold. People had to know how to make these things. Thare had to be artist, and masons, and carpenters and more to make all of these artifacts. The cave people did not leave much behind.they did leave however, cave paintings of animals.they also left tools in which they etched the designs into the wall. So, they left stories of things they saw and did. They are a simple society because first, they didn't have complicated tools such as copper axes also, they did not have written language. So, it was hard to communicate.All of these things weren't as complex as the other two. In conclusion, the Iceman and king tut were advanced, on the other hand, the cave people were not as advanced as the other two.They were simple Society because they did not know how make advanced tools for other items. King Tut was the most advanced and the Iceman second. They were advanced because people had to find metal, melt it, and shape it. this mint more jobs where people did one

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