1. Is about: what Paleolithic humankind needed in order to survive.
The Paleolithic Era
Is about: what Paleolithic humankind needed in order to survive.

2. Physical Needs Sewn animal skins to survive Ice Age
Tools and weapons made of stone, bone, and wood.
Digging sticks, spears, and axes
Caves and rocky overhangs as shelter

3. Early Tools

4. Physiological Needs Nomads: moved from place to place
Hunted and gathered in bands (20-30)
Followed animals and ripened fruit
Ate fish, fruits, berries, leaves, nuts, grains, roots
Built fire for warmth and cooking

5. Cultural Needs Cave paintings – communication (Lascaux, France)
Valued animals
Respected and cared for dead
Stressed cooperation and collaboration among the nomadic bands

7. Cave art

8. Cave art

9. Psychological Needs Worshiped “mother” earth, giver of life and food.
Looked to animal spirits for answers
Buried dead
Believed in afterlife
Status of pregnant women ensuring fertility and survival

10. Importance of women

13. Neolithic Era
Early Revolution

14. Changes from Paleolithic
Climate change-warming
Farming
Domestication of animals
More advanced tools
More food leads to larger population
Larger population means…
Permanent settlements
Villages
Personal possessions
System of governance

15. Neolithic Farm tools
These early farming tools date from about 6000 bcE. The axe, bottom, was used for clearing; flint sickles, left, were used for harvesting cereal crops; a flat rock and rounded stone, centre, were used for grinding flour; and perforated clay slabs, upper right, were probably used to ventilate bread ovens.

16. Neolithic Settlements
Once people began to grow food they also began to settle and did not wander as nomads.
Individual villages started as the population grew
These villages turned into larger Agricultural Settlement… two of the most well known are:
Catal Huyuk in Anatolia, Turkey with 6000 people
Jericho in present day Israel with 2500 people
Catal Huyuk Reconstruction