1. Chapter 1- Section 1 Early Humans
1. How did Paleolithic people adapt to their environment and use tools to help them survive?
2. How did life change for people during the Neolithic Age?

2. Key Words
Anthropologist- a person who studies how humans develop and relate to one another
Archaeologist- a person who digs up and studies things made by humans in the past
Artifact- an object made by humans in the past such as weapons or tools
Fossil- traces of plants or animals that have been preserved in rock

3. Key Words
Nomad- people who live regularly moving from one place to another
Technology- tools and methods to help perform tasks
Task-a piece of work or job that must be done
Domesticate- to train animals pr plants for human use

4. Key Words Specialization- the development of different jobs
Revolution- major changes that affect many different areas of life
LOCATE
Jericho
Çatal Hϋyϋk

5. Paleolithic-Old Stone Age
Hunter –Gatherers
Lived as nomads
Men and women did different tasks
Invented tools for hunting
Adapted to their climate
Learned to tame fire (Advancement #1)

6. Ice Ages (Paleolithic)
Needed fire to survive
Long periods of extreme cold
Began about 100,000 BC-8,000BC
Thick sheets of ice covered parts of Europe, Asia, and North America
Threat to human life because of cold and hunger
Adapted by changing diet, building sturdier shelters and using animal furs to make warm clothing

7. Language, Art and Religion
Development of spoken language(Advancement #2)
Made it easier for people to work together and pass on knowledge
Art-crushed stone to make paint and painted on cave walls.
Paintings may have had religious meaning or good luck

8. The Invention of Tools (Advancement #3)
Paleo. people were first to use technology
Stone-(flint) made tools with sharp edges
Bone- made fish hooks, needles
Used needles to make nets, baskets and sewed animal hides

9. Mesolithic Age-Middle Stone
After Ice Age ended period between Paleolithic and Neolithic was Mesolithic
Changed from hunting to herding
Domesticated animals, still nomadic
Came to an end when people realized they could plant seeds and grow foods and stay in one place and build permanent homes

10. Neolithic-New Stone Age
8,00BC-4,000BC
Farming began- Agricultural Revolution
Historians consider this time the most important event in human history
People began to own land for farms and build homes in a village setting

11. Agricultural revolution
Advantages:
--Developed communities with places of worship
Beginning of trade
Healthy growing populations-feed more people
Developed different kinds of jobs
Tools improved
Crafts developed

12. Agricultural Revolution
Disadvantages
Diets changed from meat to vegetable and grain (breads)
Disease spread
Pollution
People had to work harder

13. Villages
Jericho- located in the West Bank between Israel and Jordan is one of the oldest known villages
Çatal Hϋyϋk-present day Turkey had around 6000 people, lived in mud-brick houses

14. Benefits of Settled Life
Steady food supply
Traded food for goods
Specialization of jobs-craftspeople, toolmakers