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PREHISTORY
1st SECONDARY EDUCATION
D. Mariano Llorente
Así Hablo Zaratustra (Amanecer)
Richard Strauss (1864 – 1949)
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Objectives
•understanding archaeology
and anthropology
•identify the early stages of
human development
•list the characteristics of the
Paleolithic & Neolithic Age.
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PRE-HISTORY
The period extending from the origin of the human being to the invention of writing.
STONE AGE
METAL AGE
Bronze Age
Paleolithic
Iron Age
Neolithic
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Human Origins
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Australopithecus
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Early Homo sp
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H sapiens
Neanderthals
Mya = million years ago
Birth of Jesus was 0.002 Mya
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Paleolithic Age
• This is the period which extends from the
appearance of our first ancestors to about
10,000.
• Life was very hard. They were nomadic.
• Human beings used tools and lived on
hunting and gathering.
• Fire, was one of the most important
discoveries.
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Paleolithic Age
Click on this picture to find out what
kit they might have been carrying
with them
Stone Age people were
skilled at tool
making. They used
materials from
different sources to
make a variety of
tools designed for a
particular job.
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Paleolithic Age
• Paleolithic men believed in the
existence of supernatural forces that
helped them.
• In order to make these divinities
propitious, tribes decorated their caves
with paintings: cave art
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Paleolithic Cave Art from
Lascaux (Dordogne, France)
(About 17000 Ya)
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Paleolithic Cave Art from Altamira
(Santillana del Mar, Spain)
15,000 years ago, in the Upper Palaeolithic
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Neolithic Age
• The Neolithic Revolution refers to the Greek
word “Neolithic” which means New Stone
• This term however,
is a bit misleading
as it represents more
of a shift in agriculture.
• Neolithic men settle down and lived in
villages practicing domestication of
agriculture and cattle.
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Systematic Agriculture
• The Neolithic Age represents a shift to
Systematic Agriculture
• This is a shift from hunting and
gathering to domesticating
animals and food.
• Domestication refers to the adaptation of
animals or agriculture for human use
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Domestication of Agriculture
and animals
• What are some of the benefits of
domestication of agriculture?
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2.
Food can now be acquired on a regular basis
No moving from season to season trying to find agriculture
• What are some of the benefits of
domestication of animals?
1.
2.
3.
4.
No chasing around animals from season to season
Meat
Milk
Wool
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End of the Neolithic Age
• Sadly, the Neolithic Age declined
because of the use of metal
• Metal marks a new type of control over
human environment
• Copper was the first metal to be used
around 4000 B.C. for use in tools
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Early Humans
Historians rely on written records but there was a time
before writing existed. This is known as prehistory.
Archaeologists dig up and look at items
left behind by past humans. This process
is known as archaeology.
Anthropologists use artifacts (tools, pottery,
paintings, weapons, buildings and household
items) and fossils to study human life and
culture. This is known as anthropology.
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Early Stages of
Development
*The earliest humanlike creatures lived in Africa as long as
three to four million years ago.
australopithecus
Homo habilis
Click on the words to learn more about early humans.
Homo erectus
Homo sapiens
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Australopithecus
•“southern apes” that were in eastern
and southern Africa. Similar to
chimpanzees.
• 5 million years ago.
•first hominids (creatures walking
upright) to make simple tools
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Homo Habilis
• lived from approximately 2.5 million to 1.8
million years ago
• H. habilis was the least similar to modern
humans of all species to be placed in the
genus Homo
• intelligence and social organization of H.
habilis were more sophisticated
• made tools and lived on hunting and
gathering
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Homo Erectus
•”upright human being”
•emerged around 1.5 million years ago
•first to move to Europe and Asia
•technical development. Discovered
fire.
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Homo Sapiens
•”wise human beings”
•subgroups Neanderthals and Homo
sapiens sapiens.
•developed about 250,000 years ago
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Neanderthal, Cro-Magnon and modern
Low forehead,
prominent eyebrow ridges
Very similar to us
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Practice Your Skills
Click on the yellow word that is correct.
1. study of the past through what people have left
behind
archaeology prehistory
2. the period before writing was developed
prehistory
anthropology
3. tools, pottery, paintings, weapons, buildings, and
household items of early people anthropology artifacts
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1. study of the past through what
people have left behind is
archaeology
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Try Again
Historians rely on written records but
there was a time before writing existed.
This is known as prehistory.
BACK
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2. Historians rely on written records
but there was a time before writing
existed. This is known as prehistory.
BACK
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Try Again
Anthropologists use artifacts and fossils
to study human life and culture. This is
known as anthropology.
BACK
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3. tools, pottery, paintings,
weapons, buildings, and household
items of early people are known as
artifacts
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Check Your Skills
On a separate sheet of paper, match the correct answer.
1. _____ “wise human beings”
a. Australopithecines
b. Homo Erectus
2. _____ first hominids (creatures c. Homo Sapiens
walking upright) to make simple
tools
3. _____ “upright human beings”
Click this box to check answers
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Check Answers
1. C “wise human
beings”
a. Australopithecines
2. A first hominids
(creatures walking
upright) to make
simple tools
c. Homo Sapiens
b. Homo Erectus
3. B “upright human
beings”
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Practice Your Skills
Use a separate sheet of paper to write your answers down.
Pick a word from the bank to answer each question.
Word Bank
nomads
lodging
fire
hunted
gathering
old
1. People who move place to place are called ___________.
2. ____________ was very important for the people to survive.
3. The Paleolithic Age means the “________ Stone Age.”
Click this box to check answers
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Checking the Answers
1. People who move place to place are called nomads.
2. Fire was very important for the people to survive.
3. The Paleolithic Age means the “Old Stone Age.”
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Super Job completing the lesson!
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Credits
• Mr. Connors and Ms. Kallestad
(Eagan High School)
• Duncan Shaw
(www.abdn.ac.uk/~gen155/lectures/restut.ppt)
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