1. Bell Work Use the timeline on 24-25 to answer the following questions
About when did the first modern humans appear in Africa?
When did the Ice Ages end?
About how many years passed between the end of the Ice Ages and Catal Huyuk’s growth into a large town?
Why does the time line have breaks in it?

2. Chapter 2: The Stone Ages and Early Cultures
Prehistory
Hominid
Ancestor
Tool
Paleolithic Era
Society
Hunter-Gatherers
Migrate
Ice Ages
Land bridge
Mesolithic Era
Neolithic Era
Domestication
Agriculture
Megaliths

3. How do movies, comic strips, television programs, video games, or other media.

4. Prehistory
Writing was not invented until about 5,000 years ago. Thus, historians call the time before there was writing prehistory.

5. Archaeologists (Important Discovers about prehistory)
Mary and Louis Leakey
1959
Bones in East Africa
Date back 1.5 million years old
Donald Johanson
1974
Bones in East Africa (Ethiopia)
Date back 3 million years old
Lucy

6. Lucy’s Skeleton
Woman
Small
Walked on 2 legs
Australopithecus

7. Early Hominids and Stone Age Tools
Australopithecus
Homo Habilis
Homo Erectus
Homo Sapien

8. The Stone Ages
The Stone Ages are divided into 3 periods based on the kinds of tools used at the time.
What is a tool?
Paleolithic (Old Stone Age)
Mesolithic (Middle Stone Age)
Neolithic (New Stone Age)

9. Assignment Create a Flow Chart
Use an entire page
Name of the Hominid
Nickname
Location of the hominid
List type of tools they used (made out of)
How did they create them
Explain what the tools were used for
Draw an example of the tool used

11. Flow Chart Example

12. Paleolithic Period Hunter Gatherer Society Page 32
Activities:
Identify the various activities going on in the picture.
Hardships
What hardships did early hunter-gatherers face, suggested by the picture?
Chores:
What is the difference between the men’s chores and women’s chores, shared chores?

14. Stone Age Language, Art, Religion
Language-most important
Art-Cave Paintings
Religion-little knowledge
How did Stone Age people communicate?

16. Communicating Without Words Activity