1. Lesson 1:

2. Prehistory A time before people developed a system of writing
2 Different Periods:
Paleolithic Age (Old Stone Age)
Neolithic Age (New Stone Age)

3. How can we learn about people before there was anything written down?
Artifacts- any objects created or modified by man

4. Examples of artifacts
WEAPONS
TOOLS
ART AND OTHER THINGS

5. How do artifacts help us?
They can tell us what people ate, if they hunted or had a shelter, burial practices, etc.

6. Prehistoric Humans Homo habilis; skillful man
Homo erectus; man who walks upright
Homo sapiens; man who thinks

7. Lucy
Much of what we know about very early man has been learned from a skeleton was found in Africa in 1974. 
This skeleton was of a young female who was about 20 when she died. 
She was named Lucy, and was about 4 foot tall and probably weighed about 50 pounds when she died. 
Her skeleton showed she walked upright and her brain was about the size of an orange. 

8. How did geography influence the lives of early humans?

9. Migration= Human movement
Early people started in parts of east Africa to Europe and Asia

10. Ice Age
Approximatly 11,000 years ago there was an Ice Age on Earth The Ice Age was a period of time when huge ice sheets covered the Earth When the glaciers melted, temperatures rose and land could be farmed and animals could graze

11. Animals of the Ice Age
Rhinoceros
sabre-toothed tiger
Wooly Mammoth

12. How did people get to North America?
Beringia (now called the Bering Strait) Went from Asia to North America Formed a “land bridge”

13. Early Humans

14. Characteristics of Hunter Gatherer Societies

15. The First Technology Stone tools were the first pieces of technology
Technology is anything that makes man’s life easier

17. Characteristics of Hunter-Gatherer Societies

18. Characteristics of Hunter-Gatherer Societies