1. The Old Stone Age (The Paleolithic Era)
and
and
The New Stone Age (The Neolithic Era)

2. Scientists believe human life began in Africa about 2 million years ago.

3. Cro-Magnon man -early Homo sapiens (the species to which modern humans belong) that lived about 40,000 years ago.

4. The Old Stone Age
(The Paleolithic Era)

5. The Old Stone Age or the Paleolithic Era, was a period of time that lasted until about 12,000 to 70,000 years ago or 58,000 years.

6. How did man survive?
Man survived by hunting animals and gathering roots, berries, leaves, and seeds.

7. Hunting
Old Stone Age (Paleolithic Era) people eventually began to hunt in groups.
Cave Art showing men hunting in groups
These antlers may have been used
as a disguise during the hunt

8. Hunted Animals
Mammoth
Wild
Boar
Reindeer

9. Roots, Berries, and Other Plant Life
Gathering...
Roots, Berries, and Other Plant Life
Scurvy Grass
Crowberry
Shabby
Inkcaps
Wild
Cabbage
Morel
Gooseberry

10. Man used stone, wood, and bone tools to survive during the Old Stone Age.
Old Stone Age (Paleolithic Era) Tools

11. Bow found in Denmark
Hand Axe
Flint Blades used to sharpen tools
Bone Harpoon

12. using a flint blade to butcher a carcass using a flint blade to skin
an animal
Food Processing

13. Cave Art

14. Lascaux Cave in France

15. There was another important development – the discovery of fire.
Old Stone Age (Paleolithic Era)
There was another important development – the discovery of fire
There was another important development – the discovery of fire.

16. Many Stone Age people were Nomads, or people who had no settled home.

17. Shelters
Old Stone Age
(Paleolithic Era)

19. The Migration of Man

20. The New Stone Age
(The Neolithic Era)

21. The New Stone Age (The Neolithic Era)
The New Stone Age or The Neolithic Era lasted until about 6,000 to 12,000 years ago or 6,000 years.

22. The New Stone Age (The Neolithic Era)
During the Neolithic Era people began to settle in one place.

24. New Stone Age (Neolithic Era) Settlement

25. Man began to change his diet by eating grains and small animals.

26. The Development of Agriculture
Agriculture is the raising of crops and animals.
The development of agriculture began over a long period of time and in more than one place.
People no longer needed to travel great distances to gather food.

27. People learned how to domesticate plants and animals.
To domesticate means to train something to be useful to people.
Early people learned to care for plants such as wheat, barley, peas, and lentils.
The first farmers also domesticated wild goats, pigs, cattle, and sheep.

28. Wheat Ancient charred wheat grains are shown in the picture above.
Man domesticated wild wheat.

29. Domesticated
Corn
Thousands of years ago, an ear of corn did not make much of a meal. (top)
It took thousands of years of careful breeding for ears of corn to reach their present size. (bottom)

30. New Stone Age (Neolithic Era) Tools
People still used stone, bone, and wooden tools, but some new tools were added by using copper and bronze.

31. Advanced Tools
These early farming tools date back to around 8,000 years ago. The axe, bottom, was used for clearing; flint sickles, left, were used for harvesting cereal crops; a flat rock and rounded stone, center, were used for grinding flour; and perforated clay slabs, upper right, were probably used to ventilate bread ovens.

32. The End

33. Theory of the Evolution of Man
Neanderthal
Cro-Magnon
Modern Man