1. Lesson 2: Early Farmers Page 18-23

2. Objective: To learn about domestication and how farming changed the way of life for the Stone Age people.

3. Vocabulary

4. DomesticateSurplusHarvestAgricultureTechnologyNomad Carbon dating Excavation site The way humans produce the items they need Method of estimating the age of something after it has died. To Tame To Gather Site where archaeologist uncover artifacts Raising of plants and animals for human use Person who travels from place to place, without permanent home Having extra or an abundance of something

5. Excavation Site

7. Harvest

8. Nomad

9. Surplus

10. Domesticate

11. Stone Age

12. Old Stone Age Lasted 3,490,000 Years Very Little Progress Made Technology slow in Old Stone Age Technology Today?

13. Old Stone Age Tools

14. Then……. and Now…. 3,490,000 Years 20 years

15. New Stone Age What Caused the Transition from Old Stone Age to New Stone Age? Ended 5,000 years ago b/c of Metal Working New Stone Age Begins: Advances in Stone working Polished Rock tools Glaciers gone—Wild plants and food crops Domesticated animals and Plants –Continues today

16. Early Farming: 1 st Plants 1 st Plants: wheat, rice, barley (grains)

17. First Animals to be Domesticated

18. Domestication of Animals 10,000 years ago Dogs, goats, cattle, sheep domesticated. Depend on Humans for survival; tame VS.

19. Useful Creatures Horses Donkeys Camels Transportation for Nomads Transportation of Food Honey Wax for candles Venom for medicine

20. Animals produce milk and wool—Sell items Animals plow fields—sell the surplus Sell for What? Change in lifestyle

21. Skara Brae

22. 50 people Scotland Raised sheep and cattle Farmed Traded Surplus Social Division Led To