1. The Paleolithic age vs the Neolithic age.
By Niklas Evans, Period 7

2. When were the Paleolithic and the Neolithic ages?
The Paleolithic age was from around 3 million years BC to around 8000 BC
The Neolithic age was from around 8000 BC to around BC

3. Getting Food-Paleolithic
The Paleolithic Age people were hunter-gatherers
They hunted to get food
This meant that they had to follow prey in order to sustain a steady food supply
They also gathered food such as berries
This meant that as food supplies ran out in an area they had to find new places to get food

4. Getting food-Neolithic
The people in the Neolithic Age were farmers
This is the main difference that set them apart from the Paleolithic Age peoples
As farming was created, people could settle down into towns and villages because they no longer needed to chase their food supplies

5. living conditions in the Paleolithic age
As food was hard to come by during the Paleolithic Age, people lived in small, nomadic tribes.
They moved around and followed their food sources
They often lived in caves and other natural shelters while they hunted and gathered in a specific area and then they moved on to another area
As groups got too big they would split up into smaller groups and go their separate ways

6. Living conditions in the Neolithic age
As farming was created in the Neolithic Age, the need to move around to chase food was eliminated.
Instead, they formed small villages and built permanent houses and structures to live in
Slowly, governments and other public services were established which led to the creation of civilization

7. Religion in the Paleolithic age
The Paleolithic Age, people worshiped animals
There is evidence of early Paleolithic burials
There was one case where a human was buried with a Panther’s paw
This shows that animals were very important to the Paleolithic society and sometimes animal parts were kept as trophies of the hunt and had a lot of sentimental value

8. Religion in the Neolithic age
They buried the dead in graves, along with their weapons, pottery, food and drink in the belief that these things were required after death.
The warships plants and animals as their ancestors and protectors
They also worship forces of nature such as the sun, the moon, and stars believing that they had special powers
They also worshipped clay figurines of “Mother Goddess” believing that that would cause the fertility of their land to increase.

9. Innovations of the Paleolithic age
The people in the Paleolithic age created the first tools out of bones, stone, and wood
They learned how to use fire to keep warm, for light, and to harden tools such as spearheads
They created the hand ax which was used to sort of like a modern-day Swiss Army knife in that it had a great variety of uses and almost everybody had one

10. Innovations of the Neolithic age
The Neolithic Age farming was created
People learn how to build houses and permanent villages
They created metal tools
They learned how to domesticate animals
They created and used pottery

11. The Neolithic Revolution
As a result of the Neolithic Revolution life was changed in many ways
People became social and lived in groups permanently
They created farming which then created excess crops and resulted in the beginning of trading
All of this slowly resulted in the beginnings of civilization
This set the foundation for modern day civilizations such as America