1. HUMANS TRY TO CONTROL NATURE
ACHIEVEMENTS IN TECHNOLOGY AND ART
40,000 years ago!

2. PROGRESS DURING THE OLD STONE AGE
The Old Stone Age: Also called the PALEOLITHIC AGE
Lasted from 2.5 million to 8000 B.C.
Invention of tools, mastery over fire, and development of language took place during this age.
The Old Stone Age
2.5 millionB.C B.C.
The Ice Age occurs
3000B.C.
The New Stone Age

3. PROGRESS DURING THE NEW STONE AGE
The New Stone Age: Also called the
NEOLITHIC AGE
Lasted from 8000 B.C. to 3000 B.C.
Early humans learned to polish stone tools, make pottery, grow crops, and raise animals.

4. ACHIVEMENTS IN ART AND TECHNOLOGY
A NEW TOOL KIT
Old Stone Age men and women were NOMADIC.
*please define this with your partners on your sheet.
They were also HUNTERS and GATHERERS
*please define on your sheet
Early humans had over 100 different tools to help kill and butcher game/catch fish

5. ACHIVEMENTS IN ART AND TECHNOLOGY
PALEOLITHIC ART
Made necklaces of seashells, lion teeth, and bear claws; polished beads of mammoth tusks
Art paintings were created
Painted from charcoal, mud, and animal blood
Painted on large rocks and caves

6. CHECKPOINT CHECKPOINT CHALLENGE: Use your partners for this challenge.
The group that can produce at least two answers for this question, choose one person to write on the board, and complete it the fastest on the board will win a small prize.
***HOW DID EARLY HUMANS’ NEW TOOL KIT MAKE THE TASK OF SURVIVAL EASIER?****

7. STOP!!!! Three Muskateers Game/M&M Game
How did the Neolithic People (living from around 8000BC-3000BC) change the way humans live FOREVER??!!!

8. THE NEOLITHIC REVOLUTION
Listen to Ms. Leider’s interesting story of how agriculture began!
In your own words, what happened?

9. THE NEOLITHIC REVOLUTION
Definition of NEOLITHIC REVOLUTION:
Agricultural Revolution
Shift from food-gathering to food producing culture
One of the greatest breakthroughs in ALL of HUMAN HISTORY!!!!!!

10. THE NEOLITHIC REVOLUTION
CAUSES OF THE AGRICULTURAL REVOLUTION
Change in climate-the earth warmed up!
Rich supply of grain could support a large population
As population rose, more demand was placed on hunters-naturally turned to farming!

11. THE NEOLITHIC REVOLUTION
EARLY FARMING METHODS
SLASH AND BURN METHOD: farmers cut trees/grasses and burned them to clear a field
They would plant for a 1-2 years on the field
Then they would move on, trees/grass would grow back, and the process was repeated

12. THE NEOLITHIC REVOLUTION
DOMESTICATION OF ANIMALS
Farmers began to TAME animals
Horses, dogs, goats, and pigs
Developed very slowly at first!
Began to enclose the animals as constant food source and taming

13. THE NEOLITHIC REVOLUTION
Jarmo
REVOLUTION IN JARMO
Area in modern-day Iraq, near
Zargos Mountains
First agricultural settlement there
About 9000 years ago!
Laid the foundation of modern life
Once had wild wheat and barley, wild goats,
Pigs, sheep, and horses

14. VILLAGES GROW AND PROSPER
FARMING DEVELOPS IN MANY PLACES
Africa: The Nile River Valley for wheat, barley, and other crops
China: Chang Jiang River delta domesticated wild rice
Mexico and Central America: Farmers cultivated corn, beans, and squash
Peru: Farmers in Central Andes grew tomatoes, sweet potatoes, and white potatoes

15. CHECKPOINT USE YOUR OWN STUDY GUIDE TO ANSWER THIS QUESTION
We will check your answers when I say time is up. Your pencils must be put down at that time!
WHAT ADVANTAGES DID FARMING AND HERDING HAVE OVER HUNTING AND GATHERING?