Transcript Paleolithic or “old stone

Chapter 1: Section 1
Mr. Munford
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Historians
Archaeologists
Artifacts
Fossils
Anthropologists
Nomads
Technology
Domesticate
Jericho
Catal Huyak
specialization
Early Humans
• Who are Historians?
• Who are archaeologists
• Archaeologists dig up and study artifacts
– Weapons
– Tools
– Anything made by humans
Tools of Discovery
• Anthropologists
– Focus on human society
– Study how humans developed and their
relationships
– Early period: Stone Age
– Early part is called Paleolithic or “old stone:
Hunter Gatherers
• Early humans spent most of their time
hunting for food.
• Food they caught
– Fish
– Insects
– Nuts
– Berries
– Grains
– Fruit
Problems with hunting
• Spent long times
away from home
• Had to learn habits of
animals
• Made tools
• Over time spears
came popluar
Hunter-Gatherers
• Paleolithic lived
where ever the
climate was best.
• Paleolithic people
created new kinds of
shelter over time, the
most popular were
made of hides and
wooden poles
Paleolithic Environment
• Paleolithic people made life changing
discovery once they knew how to tame fire
• What could be some uses for fire?
• Archaeologists believed that early humans
started fires by rubbing two pieces of wood
together.
Ice Ages
• Long periods of extreme cold
• Began about 100,000 B.C and lasted until
8000 B.C
• Thick ice sheets covered Europe, Asia and
North America
• Humans adapted by
– Changing diet
– Sturdier shelters
– Warm clothing
Language, Art, and Diet
• Development of spoken language
• What’s the advantage of language
• Expression was not in words but often in
Art
– Dabbed on cave walls
– Created scenes of lions, oxen, panthers and
animals
Invention of Tools
• Paleolithic people were the first to use
technology.
• People used hard stones such as flint to
make tools.
• Example:
– Wooden poles to pieces of flint that were the
right shape of the tool
Invention of Tools
• Over time, early people began to become
better at making tools
– Fish hooks
– Needles from animal bones
Neolithic Times
• After the last Ice Age ended, people began
to change their way of life.
• Taming of animals
– For human use
• Plants were for human use
• Animals provided meat, milk and wool
– Also carried goods and pulled carts
Neolithic Times-Farming
• Neolithic times also called the farming
revolution
• People from different parts of the world
discovered how to grow crops.
• Mexico-corn, squash and potatoes
• Asia-wheat, barley and rice
Growth of villages
• Why would people settle in one place if they
learned how to farm?
• Villages were started in Europe, India, Egypt,
China and Mexico
• One of the oldest communities is Jericho
• Another Community is –Catal Huyuk
• Lived in simple mud brick houses that were
packed tightly
• Hunted, raised sheep, and goats and ate fish
and bird eggs
The Benefits of Settled Life
• The shift to settled life brought Neolithic
people more security.
• How would steady food supplies help for a
better population?
• Villages traded more of their foodstuffs
The Benefits of Settled Life
• People practiced Specialization
• What is Specialization?
• Later on, toolmakers began to make better
tools.
– Write examples on page 15
– After 4000 BC, Craftspeople in western Asia
mixed copper and tin to make bronze.
– Became widely used between 3000 BC and
12000 BC known as the Bronze Age
The Benefits of Settled Life