1. Bell Work Use the timeline on 24-25 to answer the following questions
About when did the first modern humans appear in Africa?
When did the Ice Ages end?
About how many years passed between the end of the Ice Ages and Catal Huyuk’s growth into a large town?
Why does the time line have breaks in it?

2. Chapter 2: The Stone Ages and Early Cultures
Prehistory
Hominid
Ancestor
Tool
Paleolithic Era
Society
Hunter-Gatherers
Migrate
Ice Ages
Land bridge
Mesolithic Era
Neolithic Era
Domestication
Agriculture
Megaliths

3. How do movies, comic strips, television programs, video games, or other media.

4. Prehistory
Writing was not invented until about 5,000 years ago. Thus, historians call the time before there was writing prehistory.

5. Archaeologists (Important Discovers about prehistory)
Mary and Louis Leakey
1959
Bones in East Africa
Date back 1.5 million years old
Donald Johanson
1974
Bones in East Africa (Ethiopia)
Date back 3 million years old
Lucy

6. Lucy’s Skeleton
Woman
Small
Walked on 2 legs
Hominid

7. Early Hominids and Stone Age Tools
Australopithecus
Homo Habilis
Homo Erectus
Homo Sapien
What is a tool?

8. The Stone Ages
The Stone Ages are divided into 3 periods based on the kinds of tools used at the time.
Stone Ages
Paleolithic (Old Stone Age)
Mesolithic (Middle Stone Age)
Neolithic (New Stone Age)

9. Hominids
Flow Chart Example 1

10. Flow Chart Example 2
Hominids

11. Flow Chart Example 3 Australopithecus Homo Habilis Homo Erectus
Homo Sapien

12. Assignment Create a Flow Chart
Use an entire page
Name of the Hominid
Nickname
Location of the hominid
List type of tools they used (made out of)
How did they create them
Explain what the tools were used for
Draw an example of the tool used

14. P. 32

15. Paleolithic Period Hunter Gatherer Society Page 32
Activities:
Identify the various activities going on in the picture.
Hardships
What hardships did early hunter-gatherers face, suggested by the picture?
Chores:
What is the difference between the men’s chores and women’s chores, shared chores?

16. Bell Work Write the Sentences
Read “Linking to Today” on page 33. Why weren't the Stone Age people’s tools as primitive as we might think?
T or F. Historians use the term prehistory to refer to the time before there was writing.
T or F. Scientists think the first tools were developed to use as weapons.
T or F. An important development of homo erectus was the ability to control fire.
Look at the cave painting on page 34. What do you think was the purpose of cave paintings?

18. Stone Age Language, Art, Religion
Language-most important*
Grunting, Gestures, Expressions
Hunting easier
Form relationships
Resolve Issues (distribute food)
Art-Cave Paintings
Expressive
Hunt?
Religious?
Religion-little knowledge
Graves with food
How did Stone Age people communicate?
What is one possible reason for the development of language?

19. Communicating Without Words Activity
Groups of 2 or 3
1 “speaker” two “guessers”
A piece of paper and pencil
No verbal speaking
Gestures, appropriate grunts (no, yes), facial expressions, signing, or drawings
You may not skip a card
Record your successes on the sheet of paper

20. The Iceman page 35
Why do you think the Iceman was in the Alps?

21. Did you Know
The Iceman may have been hungry when he died. Scientists determined from studying a portion of the Iceman’s intestine that he had not eaten within eight hours of his death.

22. Exit Ticket Who found the bones of Lucy?
Why do we need historians and archaeologists to study prehistory?
What is a hunter-gatherer?
What is the most important development of early Stone Age Culture?
List the tools that go with the following (in order): Australopithecus, homo habilis, homo erectus, homo sapien.