1. The Stone Age

2. Keep this question in mind as we read along!
Essential Question
Who lived and what happened during the prehistoric period known as the Stone Age?
Keep this question in mind as we read along!

3. Prehistoric Period of Achievements
• Stone Age period saw important achievements
- use of tools, mastery of fire, development of language and farming

4. Prehistoric Period of Achievements
Stone Age is divided into three phases:
Paleolithic Age—Old Stone Age
about 2.5 million to 8000 B.C.
Mesolithic Age—Middle Stone Age
about 10,000 to 6000 B.C.
Neolithic Age—New Stone Age
about 8000 to 3000 B.C.

8. Tools of the Mesolithic Age

10. Prehistoric Period of Achievements
Farming developed in Neolithic Age
- people settled down and built communities, stopped wandering
- skills, tools for adapting to environment more sophisticated

11. What achievements occurred during the Stone Age?
REVIEW QUESTION
What achievements occurred during the Stone Age?