1. Neolithic Era 8000 BCE to 3500 BCE
New Stone Age
period of time that began when people took up farming (the Agricultural Revolution) and ended with the advent of civilization.
farming

2. Humans learned how to domesticate both plants and animals.

3. Domesticated (tamed) animals were penned or herded to provide a ready supply of meat, milk, fur,etc.
Domesticated pig
Wild boar

4. How did the beginning of agriculture and the domestication of animals promote the rise of settled communities?

5. People could settle in one place because they didn’t have to search for food, water and shelter.
Neolithic people in many parts of the world independently developed agriculture.

6. They built permanent dwellings and settled in small villages
The key invention that ushered in the Neolithic Age was farming. This invention fundamentally changed the fabric of Mesolithic society because people no longer had to spend all their time hunting, and they were less likely to go hungry when game was hard to find. Additionally, they could built much larger, more permanent dwellings and, perhaps most importantly, this was the first period that people had enough 'spare time' in which to innovate.

7. They spent less time searching for food and had some 'spare time' in which to innovate and create new technologies.

8. Migration into the Fertile Crescent

9. What technologies were developed during the Neolithic era?

10. agriculture
domesticated animals

11. advanced tools and weapons
Flint axe

12. pottery

13. weaving

14. How do we learn about prehistoric humans?

15. Archaeologists
Study past cultures by locating and analyzing human remains, settlements, fossils, and artifacts
Archaeologists study people of the past through the things they left behind.

16. Artifacts
Things made by people

17. Archaeologists apply scientific tests such as carbon dating to analyze fossils and artifacts.
The half-life of carbon 14 is 5730 ± 30 years, and the method of dating lies in trying to determine how much carbon 14 (the radioactive isotope of carbon) is present in the artifact and comparing it to levels currently present in the atmosphere.
Above is a graph that illustrates the relationship between how much Carbon 14 is left in a sample and how old it is.

18. Carbon 14 dating: used to find the age of organic materials.

19. The Ice Man

20. What Neolithic sites are being studied by archaeologists today?

21. TURKEY
Catal Hoyuk
Aleppo
FERTILE CRESCENT (in white)
Jericho
Aleppo and Jericho:
Two of the world’s earliest cities located in the Fertile Crescent, a region in the Middle East with rich soil for farming.

22. Aleppo
Why did they build this city on top of a hill?

23. Jericho
What’s Jericho famous for?

24. Catalhoyuk:
An example of a large Neolithic settlement currently under excavation in Anatolia (present- day Turkey)

25. Stonehenge
an example of an archaeological site located in England. It was begun during the Neolithic and completed during the Bronze Age.

26. Warm-up 3
Another name for the Neolithic Era is the Old Stone Age or the New Stone Age?
The Neolithic Era began when humans learned agriculture or how to domesticate or gather plants and animals?
Why were Neolithic humans able to settle in one place and build houses and villages?
Name five technologies developed during the Neolithic Era?
Name two Neolithic sites being studied by archaeologists today.

27. Warm-up 3 answers
Why were Neolithic humans able to settle in one place and build houses and villages? Since they could farm and domesticate animals they had a ready supply of food
Name five technologies developed during the Neolithic Era? agriculture, domesticated animals, weaving, pottery and advanced tools and weapons
Name two Neolithic sites being studied by archaeologists today. Jericho, Aleppo, Catal Hoyuk, and Stonehenge