1. Neolithic Age: Taking Control of Nature

2. New Stone Age Southwest Asia 8000 – 3000 BCE Specialized tools
Domestication of Plants and Animals

3. Wild Goat
Domesticated Goat

4. Development of Agriculture
Warming trend ended the Ice age in 10,000 BCE
People began to farm
Grains began to spread throughout Southwest Asia
Domestication – selective growing or breeding of plants and animals to make them more useful to humans.

5. How do you suspect agriculture changed society?

8. Case Study #1: Otzi the Iceman

9. Who is this Guy? Why is he important? Items Tool kit Six-foot longbow
Deerskin case with 14 arrows
Small dagger
Copper ax
Medicine bag

10. What have we learned from Otzi?
Over 5,000 years ago
Killed by an arrow to the back
Knowledge of medicine
Knowledge of acupuncture
Semi-nomadic
types of technology

11. Cast Study #2: Çatal Höyük

12. Çatal Höyük Turkish meaning, “fork mound”
Large and well preserved Neolithic settlement
7500 to 5700 BCE

13. Homes Domestic buildings No public buildings
Population: 5,000 to 8,000
honeycomb-like maze; no streets or paths
Holes in the ceilings; ladders inside and out
Plastered interior walls
Figurines

14. Culture: Daily Life Egalitarian – no social class
Little distinction between genders
Wheat and barley
sheep and goats

15. So, what does this all mean?