1. The Three Stone Ages

2. Paleolithic Name: Old or Ancient Stone Age
Time Period: 2.5 million to 40,000 years ago.
Climate: Ice Age

3. Housing: People live in caves
Paleolithic Age
Housing: People live in caves
Tools & Goods: Rough or chipped stone tools. Hunters and gatherers.
Animals: Wooly mammoths and saber-toothed tigers

4. Mesolithic Name: Meso (Middle) Stone Age
Time Period: 40,000 BC to 8,000 BC
Climate: Ice Age begins to thaw out
Housing: People live in and draw in caves. Some people begin to move out of caves

5. Tools & Goods: “Barbs” or hooks. Interchangeable blades.
Mesolithic
Tools & Goods: “Barbs” or hooks. Interchangeable blades.
Animals: Wooly mammoths and saber-toothed tigers are dying out. Some wolves tamed. Some sheep kept in pens.

6. Neolithic Name: New Stone Age Time Period: 8,000 to 3,500 BC
Climate: Ice Age thawed out.
Housing: People build mud brick shelters or tents made of poles, wrapped with matting or animal skins.

7. Tools & Goods: Pottery, stone farming tools, clothes, baskets.
Neolithic
Tools & Goods: Pottery, stone farming tools, clothes, baskets.
Animals: Sheep and goats tamed (domesticated), used for wool, meat, and milk. No more wooly mammoths or saber-toothed tigers.

8. The Neolithic Revolution
Revolution means “change”
EFFECTS:
People began to live in
Villages & cities instead of moving around
People had reliable food sources
New technology develops
This is a *turning point* - things CHANGE!