Transcript Early Man 2 - My Teacher Pages

2. Early Man Notes #2: Neolithic Era
I. Societies during Neolithic Era (8,000 BC -3,500 BC)
A. The Neolithic Revolution marked the period when
man went from hunting and gathering to farming.
I. Societies during Neolithic Era
B. Advances during the Neolithic Era (New Stone Age)
1. Developed Agriculture (Farming).
2. Domesticated Animals & Plants.
I. Societies during Neolithic Era
B. Advances during the Neolithic Era (New Stone Age)
3. Used Advanced Tools (Ex. Sickle)
4. Made pottery (storage)
5. Developed weaving skills. (Baskets/Clothes)
The Invention of the Sickle
made the harvesting of
Wheat easier
I. Societies during Neolithic Era
C. By 4000 BC there were 90 million people and villages of
about 200 people began to develop.
D. Prehistory ends in 3500 BC when the Sumerians developed
the first writing system and hence the first records.
II. Archeological discoveries change present-day
knowledge
A. Archeologists study past cultures
1. Locating human remains
2. Analyzing human remains
3. Examining settlements, fossils and artifacts
II. Archeological discoveries change present-day
knowledge
B. Archeologists apply scientific tests
1. Carbon Dating to analyze fossils and artifacts.
2. Stonehenge
a. Example of archaeological site
b. Located in England
c. Construction began during Neolithic Age
d. Construction completed during Bronze
Age
II. Archeological discoveries change present-day
knowledge
B. Archeologists apply scientific tests
2. Stonehenge
STONEHENGE
STONEHENGE WAS
BELIEVED TO BE
CONSTRUCTED
AROUND 2000 BC.
NEOLITHIC CITIES BEGAN TO
DEVELOP IN THE MODERN
DAY MIDDLE EAST AND
TURKEY BETWEEN 10,000 BC
AND 8,000 BC.
EUROPE
ASIA
CATAL HUYUK
ALEPPO
JERICHO
AFRICA
1. ALEPPO IS LOCATED IN
MODERN DAY SYRIA
2. JERICHO IS LOCATED IN
MODERN DAY ISRAEL
3. CATAL HUYUK IS LOCATED
IN MODERN DAY TURKEY
THESE EARLY PEOPLE
PLANTED CROPS,
DOMESTICATED ANIMALS,
CREATED POTTERY, AND
SOME ARCHEOLOGISTS
BELIEVE HAD POPULATIONS
OF UP TO 10,000.
II. Archeological discoveries change present-day
knowledge
B. Archeologists apply scientific tests
3. Aleppo and Jericho
a. Examples of early cities studied by
archaeologists
ALEPPO
JERICHO
II. Archeological discoveries change present-day
knowledge
B. Archeologists apply scientific tests
4. Catal Huyuk
a. Example of Neolithic settlement
currently under excavation
II. Archeological discoveries change present-day
knowledge
Çatal Hüyük
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Located in modern day turkey
Active around 8,000 BCE
Largest early settlement found by archeologists
6,000 inhabitants (people that lived there)
12 different crops
Had division of labor
Traded
Had an organized religion
Had a small military
Early Settlement Map
CATAL HUYUK
ALEPPO
JERICHO