1. Early Humans

2. Objectives
Understand how early Paleolithic people adapted to various environments
Know the tools invented by Paleolithic people

3. Vocabulary to know Historian Archeologist Artifacts Fossils Nomad
Anthropologist
Technology
Domestication
Specialization

4. Historians People who study and collect information about the past
When did written history begin? About 5500 years ago

5. Archeologists
Hunt for evidence in the ground of past ancient civilizations
Look for artifacts or physical evidence left behind by civilizations as well as fossils

6. Anthropologists Focus on human interactions in a society
They study how humans relate to one another.

7. Paleolithic Period Known as the stone age
Stone was used to make weapons and tools
Began about 2.5 million years ago and ended about 8000 years ago

8. Hunter Gatherers
Societies who hunted animals, fished, ate bugs, and spent much time in search for food.
Always on the move or nomadic
Men and women did different jobs so they were specialized in what they did

9. Hunter Gatherers Learned habits of animals Built tools
Eventually created spears, traps, bows and arrows
Paleolithic people were the first to use tools and weapons

10. Adaptation to Environment
Adaptation was dependent upon where they lived.
Colder climates, people used caves
Warmer climates they used little shelter or clothing

11. Ice Age Fire key to survival of Paleolithic people
Long periods of cold
Ice Age lasted from about 100,000 BC to 8000 BC
Ice sheets covered portions of Europe, North America and Asia.

12. Ice Age Ice Age major threat to human life
Adapted through changing diet
Used fur for clothing
Mastered starting fires

13. America Settled during Ice Age
a land bridge between Asia and North America existed during the last ice age called Beringia.
Ocean water locked up in glacial ice lowered sea levels to the point where a corridor up to 1600km or more wide existed between Siberia and Alaska

14. Language Art and Religion
Spoken Language is developed along with art communication.
It is assumed that religion was developed from the use of art. The art may have had some religious meaning.

15. Neolithic Peoples People began using agriculture Built communities
Created products
Began trading

16. Neolithic Peoples Domesticated animals Used for work
Used as a food staple
Used wool for clothes

17. Fertile Crescent
Initially, the Fertile Crescent was only sparsely inhabited but around 8000 BC, it was in this fertile valley that agriculture was first believed to have been developed.
The Fertile Crescent was located in what today would be Iraq, Syria, & Iran.

18. Fertile Crescent
Around 5,000 B.C. the first cities were constructed in the southern part of this long crescent valley, near the Persian Gulf, by an intelligent, resourceful and energetic people who became known as the Sumerians.

19. Fertile Crescent
third millennium B.C Sumerian astronomers living along the Tigris River noticed there were roughly 360 days in the year.

20. Neolithic People
After Ice Age began to domesticate Animals and plants.
Domesticate- Taming of plant or animals for human use

21. Importance of Farming
Farming began in different parts of the world at the same time
Asia- Wheat, barley, millet, rice soybeans
Americas- Corn, squash, potatoes,

22. Growth of Villages Farmers settled in one place
Herders remained nomadic
Neolithic age villages began in Europe, India, China, Egypt
Skara Brae, Orkney, a well-preserved Neolithic village from BC.

23. Benefits of Settled Life
Allowed for greater security
Steady supply of food
Better health
Allowed for population growth
Created markets
Allowed people to specialize in different kinds of jobs

24. Benefits of Settled Life
Innovation moved forward
Discovery of Bronze
Used for weapons , tools
Used predominately between 3000 BC to 1200 BC
Better farming tools

25. Compare Paleolithic Age with the Neolithic age technologically
Name__________________
Paleolithic
Neolithic

26. Compare Paleolithic Age with the Neolithic age for adaptation
Name__________________
Paleolithic
Neolithic