1. Paleolithic Age to Neolithic Age

2. Where did the earliest humans come from?
Mary and Louis Leakey discovered the earliest traces of humans in the Great Rift Valley of Africa

3. Australopithecines

4. Homo Habilis

5. Home Erectus

6. Neanderthal

7. Cro-Magnon

8. Paleolithic Age What word does Paleolithic Resemble? Paleontology?
Paleo means “ancient” or “prehistoric”
Lithic means stone
Paleolithic Age was a time period before the invention of writing and is also called the Old Stone Age.

9. Characteristics of the Paleolithic Age
People were nomads.
People were
hunter-gatherers.
They followed herds
of animals for food.
They visited the same
places each new
season for wild plants.
They lived in caves,
rock shelters, or built
non-permanent homes.

10. Art

11. SIMPLE STONE TOOLS Used for cutting, chopping, and Chiseling
Axe, cleaver, flint
knives

12. Paleolithic Age Social Nomads – wandered place to place Economic
Hunter-gatherers – hunted/fished animals and gathered wild plants
Type of Homes
Non-permanent, caves, rock shelters, quick huts
Technology
Simple Stone tools – axe, chisel, knives, flints

13. Neolithic Age Neo means new, just like the Matrix Lithic means what?
Stone
Neolithic Age was a time period AFTER the Paleolithic Age, also called the New Stone Age
Marked by a change in technology!

14. Characteristics of the Neolithic Age
People began to
Settle and live in
Permanent homes
They domesticated
Animals
BEGAN FARMING
USED COMPLEX
TOOLS

15. Neolithic Art and Architecture

16. Complex Tools

17. Neolithic Age Social Settled in small communities/villages Economic
Agriculture also called farming, domesticated animals. INCREASE IN DIET
Type of homes
Permanent houses and buildings
Technology
COMPLEX TOOLS –pottery, polished axe, adz, sickles, spears

18. Use your textbook, pages to complete the History Frame
Handout for the Neolithic revolution
Neolithic
Revolution
Title of Event:
Key Players:
Humans
Problem or Goal:
Make life easier
Make food production
easier
Where:
When:
Different parts of the world- First in Middle East
About 10,000 – 8000 B.C.
1. Humans discovered farming
2. Learned to domesticate animals
For food, clothing, and labor
Began settling in
Permanent homes
Invented complex
tools
Key episodes
Farming led to INCREASE in food
Production and BETTER DIETS.
More food meant more time to do other
Things, such as build homes and
SPECIALIZE
Outcome:
Neolithic Revolution changed
how humans lived. They settled and farmed.
The free time from food surpluses
Led to specialization. This attracted a lot
Of people and led to RISE of CIVILIZATION
Theme

19. EXIT QUESTION
What is the main reason the Neolithic Revolution is considered a turning point in world history?
(1) Fire was used as a source of energy for the first time.
(2) Spoken language was used to improve communication.
(3) Domestication of animals and cultivation of crops led to settled communities.
(4) Stone tools and weapons were first developed.