Transcript Stone Age

Scientists believe human life
began in Africa about 2 million
years ago.
Cro-Magnon man early Homo sapiens
(the species to which
modern humans
belong) that lived
about 40,000 years
ago.
The Old Stone Age or the Paleolithic Era,
was a period of time that lasted until about
12,000 to 70,000 years ago or 58,000 years.
•Man survived by hunting
animals and gathering roots,
berries, leaves, and seeds.
•Old Stone Age (Paleolithic Era) people
eventually began to hunt in groups.
•Cave Art showing men
hunting in groups
•These antlers may have been used
as a disguise during the hunt
Mammoth
Wild
Boar
Reindeer
Scurvy Grass
Crowberry
Shabby
Inkcaps
Morel
Wild
Cabbage
Gooseberry
•Man used
stone, wood,
and bone tools
to survive
during the
Old Stone
Age.
Old Stone Age (Paleolithic Era) Tools
Bow found in Denmark
Hand Axe
Flint Blades used to sharpen tools
Bone Harpoon
•using a flint blade to skin
an animal
•using a flint blade to
butcher a carcass
Food Processing
Lascaux Cave in France
There was another important
development – the discovery of
fire
•There was another
important
development – the
discovery of fire.
Many Stone Age people were Nomads,
or people who had no settled home.
Old Stone Age
(Paleolithic Era)
• The New Stone
Age or The
Neolithic Era
lasted until
about 6,000 to
12,000 years
ago or 6,000
years.
• During the
Neolithic
Era people
began to
settle in
one place.
• Man began to change his diet by eating grains
and small animals.
• Agriculture is the
raising of crops and
animals.
• The development of
agriculture began
over a long period of
time and in more
than one place.
• People no longer
needed to travel
great distances to
gather food.
• People learned how to
domesticate plants
and animals.
• To domesticate means
to train something to
be useful to people.
• Early people learned
to care for plants
such as wheat, barley,
peas, and lentils.
• The first farmers also
domesticated wild
goats, pigs, cattle, and
sheep.
•Ancient charred
wheat grains are
shown in the picture
above.
• Man domesticated wild
wheat.
• Thousands of years
ago, an ear of corn
did not make much
of a meal. (top)
• It took thousands of
years of careful
breeding for ears of
corn to reach their
present size. (bottom)
• People still used
stone, bone, and
wooden tools,
but some new
tools were added
by using copper
and bronze.
•These early farming tools date back to around 8,000 years
ago. The axe, bottom, was used for clearing; flint sickles,
left, were used for harvesting cereal crops; a flat rock and
rounded stone, center, were used for grinding flour; and
perforated clay slabs, upper right, were probably used to
ventilate bread ovens.
Neanderthal
Cro-Magnon
Modern Man