2.5 million years ago.- 3,500 B.C.
The Stone Age Mesolithic Era/ Middle Stone Age 40,000 B.C.-8,000 B.C. Paleolithic Era/ Old Stone Age 2.5 Million- 40,000B.C. Neolithic/ New Stone Age 8,000 B.C.- 3,500 B.C. -technology -fire -Hunters-gatherers -Ice Age -Ice thawing -drawings -moving out of caves blades/hooks -thawed! -agriculture! -communities -domestication -specialization
Paleolithic Era/ Old Stone Age Ice Age People lived in ________ They had rough or chipped tools, which is the earliest form of ___________ People would _______ for food or _______ berries. Therefore they were known as ________________. caves technology hunt gather Hunters-gatherers
Animals These animals were alive in the Paleolithic Era/Old Stone Age: Wooly Mammoth Saber-Tooth Tiger
Rough or chipped tools of the Old Stone Age
Most scientists believe life started in Africa In canyons of Tanzania
People were just learning how to use something that would enable them to move to colder climates. (They could cook now too!) Fire!
When hunting and gathering, it was important for people of the Stone Age to find food as well as _____________. medicine TASTY? POISON? MEDICINE?
Border Cave, Zululand Border Cave is in Zululand, South Africa Here, scientists were able to find clues of what life was like 40,000 years ago The people living here tried to make it comfortable with grass lining the floor and campfires to make it light.
Scientists found a baby buried here with seashell beads Scientists found a baby buried here with seashell beads. What can you infer about the people of the Old Stone Age after this find?
The baby and the seashells show… The baby was cared for They believed in some sort of after life. They had some sort of religion. They valued beauty. They traveled. (It’s 50 miles to the ocean!)
The ice will start to thaw…… This leads to the ______________ era. Mesolithic
Mesolithic Era 40,000 B.C.- 8,000 B.C. The ice begins to thaw! Cave Drawings People begin moving out of caves Technology advances: “barbs” or hooks, interchangeable blades Wooly mammoths and saber tooth tigers are dying out Some wolves are being tamed Some sheep are being kept in pens
The New Stone Age 8, 000 BC- 3,500 BC
boar skull
What can you infer about people’s lives during the Neolithic Era?
Infer about this early community. There are doors on the roof, but that is it! There is one door to the community. One in three buildings are a temple. Wall paintings are inside. They are all attached. This was found on the banks of the Carsamba River in Turkey. Lapis Lazuli from Afghanistan found
Neolithic 8,000 B.C.- 3,500 B.C. The ice has thawed! Domesticated sheep for their wool and milk and dogs for hunting Agriculture! Now they can live together. Built mud brick shelters or tents Now making stone farming tools, cloth and baskets No more saber-toothed tigers or wooly mammoths. Catal Hoyuk and Jericho
Two Neolithic Communities Jericho Catal Hoyuk
Ness of Brodgar- Orkney Islands, Scotland (5,000 yrs. Old)
Orkney Islands, Scotland
Skara Brae 3,180 B.C.- 2,500 B.C.