The Paleolithic and Neolithic Ages

Before and after 8000BC

The Paleolithic Age

• Known as the “Old Stone Age”– Starts with ???– All ???

• Lives were nomadic – WHAT DOES THIS MEAN???– Constant search for:

1. ???2. ???3. ???

– Considered hunter-gatherers• Lived in clans – usually based on ???• Numerous achievements accomplished in this time period

Characteristics/Achievements of the Paleolithic Age

• Invented ???– Used for many reasons, mainly survival

• Learned to control and create ???– WHY IMPORTANT???

• Created a very simple ???• Free Time – What to do???

– Created “cave art”• Created by hunter-gatherer societies during the

Old Stone Age• Most early cave art found in Africa, ???

AND ???– Purpose of art to convey message, mark territory

and create historical accounts

The Neolithic Revolution

• What Does it Mean?– Neo = ???, Lithic = ???– Revolution is a new age or creation

• Neolithic Revolution is the ???– WHY???– Allowed nomads to do WHAT???

• Creation of farming marks the Neolithic Age– Started about 10,000 years ago (8,000 BCE)

• How does farming start???– Upon their return they found food growing

• This was the birth of farming

Characteristics of the Neolithic Revolution

• Ability to farm and domesticate plants– What did they grow???

• Ability to domesticate animals – What does this mean???– Cattle, sheep, and other docile animals ???

• Advanced ???– Vast improvements of the ??? tools of the past

• Creation of ???– Eating, drinking, storage and carrying of water

• Began to ???– Allowed clothing and blankets to be

created

Effects of the Neolithic Revolution

• Beginning of agriculture leads to:1. ???2. ???3. ???

• Farming leads to more ???– More food allowed ???– Longer lives led to ???– Population led to ???

• To create more food, new ideas arise– ???

• Cutting down trees and burning them to let ashes into the soil to add nutrients

– ???• Taming animals for slaughter – Which animals??

Other New Inventions• New ways to farm

– Invented the ??? to till the land faster

– Used ??? to pull the plow • Created less human labor

• Made stronger tools/ weapons using ???– Mixed copper and tin to

make ???– Begins the Bronze Age

• Bronze Age begins around 2500 BC (times vary)– Bronze was ???

Archeologists & Anthropologists

• Both continue to try and explain the early lives of the people– What do they do???

• How do they do this?

• Where???– Stonehenge, Aleppo, Jericho, Catal

Hayuk (Anatolia)• All early cities of the Fertile Crescent

(except Stonehenge, Catal Hayuk)

• Stonehenge built during the Bronze Age