1. Unit 1, Chapter 1, Section 2: The Neolithic Revolution
When – Around 8000 BCE (10,000 years ago) to 4000 BCE
Neo – New; Lithic – Stone (New Stone Age)

2. What's the difference? Paleolithic – Hunters and gatherers
Followed food as it traveled
Nomadic lifestyle
Neolithic - SYSTEMATIC AGRICULTURE
DOMESTICATION
A more settled community lifestyle
How did paleolithic man get its food?

3. What's being grown/domesticated?
Wheat and Barley (Rice in Asia)
Cows, sheep, goats and pigs
Cats and Dogs
Horses, elephants, camels, llamas
Dogs – Loyal, valuable in hunting for trapping or cornering prey
Cats – Eat mice that might eat crops
Others – Milk, clothing and/or meat

4. Çatalhöyük One of the largest preserved neolithic villages discovered.
Approximately 8700 years old
Could have housed around 6,000 people
Evidence of temples leading to early thoughts of religion
Translates to “Fork Mound”
6,000 people about a third of what can be held at JLA

5. Çatalhöyük
How are they getting in to the houses/getting from house to house?
What else do you notice about the village?

7. Çatalhöyük – What do we do?
ARTISANS – People who specialize in the production of items or objects.

8. What are the results of the Neolithic Revolution?
Defensive walls
Store houses
Improved tools

9. Roles of men and women
Men take on greater role of herding and farming in addition to hunting.
Women take care of duties around home.

10. What do we get out of the Neolithic Era?
Basis for farming and domesticating animals
Refinement of tools to help daily life
Artisans specializing in individual products
Basis for economies and wealth.
Materials change from stone to copper to bronze to iron

11. Odds and ends of the Paleolithic, Mesolithic and Neolithic Eras
Early surgeries using flint or obsidian knives
Kos, show the arrowheads!

12. Odds and ends of the Paleolithic, Mesolithic and Neolithic Eras
Early versions of boats and canoes dug out from trees (also known as dugout boats)‏
This is thought to have been built around 8500 B.C.

13. Odds and ends of the Paleolithic, Mesolithic and Neolithic Eras
This one was built around 6000 B.C. in Africa.
Other boats theorized to have been made of wood and wrapped in leather or animal hides.

14. Odds and ends of the Paleolithic, Mesolithic and Neolithic Eras
Possibly the first calendars.
Tailored clothing?
Early dentistry.
Beer and drugs?
Fermentation of foods for preservation.
Furniture and lavatory use.
Lamps and early flashlights.
National Geographic article showed signs of drilling in teeth from 9000 year old body. Reasoning why is undetermined but therapeutic reasons suspected.
Beer possibly discovered by accident, according to residue from artifacts. Drugs suggested as reason for cave paintings.
Pic from Skara Brae, Scotland around 3000 B.C.

15. Culture and Civilization
Culture – A person or a group of people's way of life
Civilization – A larger culture shared by a group of people located in a similar area.

16. Cities No more nomadic lifestyles Area to connect a group of people
Residents share a common lifestyle
Each resident typically has a role within the city

17. Government The need for rules and regulations
Early governments lead by Monarchs (Kings and Queens)

18. Religion
Seeking to find the need to explain the world and what happens
Gods and Goddesses needed to be appeased for the civilization's success
Priests

19. Social Structure
Social classes – Groups of people rising to have more power than others

20. Writing The ability to keep records and documents.
Also the ability to express one's self creatively.

21. Art Expressing one's self creatively.
Also for pleasing those of the higher classes or the Gods and Goddesses.