Bell Work Use the timeline on to answer the following questions 1.About when did the first modern humans appear in Africa? 2.When did the Ice Ages end? 3.About how many years passed between the end of the Ice Ages and Catal Huyuk’s growth into a large town? 4.Why does the time line have breaks in it?

Chapter 2: The Stone Ages and Early Cultures  Prehistory  Hominid  Ancestor  Tool  Paleolithic Era  Society  Hunter- Gatherers  Migrate  Ice Ages  Land bridge  Mesolithic Era  Neolithic Era  Domestication  Agriculture  Megaliths

How do movies, comic strips, television programs, video games, or other media.

Prehistory  Writing was not invented until about 5,000 years ago. Thus, historians call the time before there was writing prehistory.

Archaeologists (Important Discovers about prehistory)  Mary and Louis Leakey  1959  Bones in East Africa  Date back 1.5 million years old  Donald Johanson  1974  Bones in East Africa (Ethiopia)  Date back 3 million years old  Lucy

Lucy’s Skeleton  Woman  Small  Walked on 2 legs  Hominid

Early Hominids and Stone Age Tools  Australopithecus  Homo Habilis  Homo Erectus  Homo Sapien What is a tool?

The Stone Ages  The Stone Ages are divided into 3 periods based on the kinds of tools used at the time. Stone Ages  Paleolithic (Old Stone Age)  Mesolithic (Middle Stone Age)  Neolithic (New Stone Age)

Hominids Australopithecus Homo Habilis Homo Erectus Homo Sapien Flow Chart Example 1

Hominids Flow Chart Example 2

Australopithecus Homo Habilis Homo Erectus Homo Sapien Flow Chart Example 3

Assignment Create a Flow Chart  Use an entire page  Name of the Hominid  Nickname  Location of the hominid  List type of tools they used (made out of)  How did they create them  Explain what the tools were used for  Draw an example of the tool used

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Paleolithic Period Hunter Gatherer Society Page 32  Activities:  Identify the various activities going on in the picture.  Hardships  What hardships did early hunter-gatherers face, suggested by the picture?  Chores:  What is the difference between the men’s chores and women’s chores, shared chores?

Exit Ticket  How did tools change during the Stone Ages?

Stone Age Language, Art, Religion  Language-most important  Art-Cave Paintings  Religion-little knowledge  How did Stone Age people communicate?

Communicating Without Words Activity