The Three Stone Ages
Paleolithic Name: Old or Ancient Stone Age Time Period: 2.5 million to 40,000 years ago. Climate: Ice Age
Housing: People live in caves Paleolithic Age Housing: People live in caves Tools & Goods: Rough or chipped stone tools. Hunters and gatherers. Animals: Wooly mammoths and saber-toothed tigers
Mesolithic Name: Meso (Middle) Stone Age Time Period: 40,000 BC to 8,000 BC Climate: Ice Age begins to thaw out Housing: People live in and draw in caves. Some people begin to move out of caves
Tools & Goods: “Barbs” or hooks. Interchangeable blades. Mesolithic Tools & Goods: “Barbs” or hooks. Interchangeable blades. Animals: Wooly mammoths and saber-toothed tigers are dying out. Some wolves tamed. Some sheep kept in pens.
Neolithic Name: New Stone Age Time Period: 8,000 to 3,500 BC Climate: Ice Age thawed out. Housing: People build mud brick shelters or tents made of poles, wrapped with matting or animal skins.
Tools & Goods: Pottery, stone farming tools, clothes, baskets. Neolithic Tools & Goods: Pottery, stone farming tools, clothes, baskets. Animals: Sheep and goats tamed (domesticated), used for wool, meat, and milk. No more wooly mammoths or saber-toothed tigers.
The Neolithic Revolution Revolution means “change” EFFECTS: People began to live in Villages & cities instead of moving around People had reliable food sources New technology develops This is a *turning point* - things CHANGE!