1. BUILD TIMELINE. LEARN EUROPEAN HERITAGE Nyhamre skola Bollnas, Sweden May 19 th -23 rd 2014

2. Prehistory Paleolithic (4.000.000/12.000) Mesolithic (12.000/ 8.000) Neolithic (8.000/3.500) Protostoria (Early history) Or Metal Age

3. Prehistory Australophitecus Homo habilis The evolution of man Homo erectusHomo sapiens 4.000.000/3.000.000 years ago 3.000.000/500.000 years ago 500.000/12.000 years ago Homo sapiens sapiens

4. AUSTRALOPHITECUS He CAN live on or under the trees HOMO HABILIS He HAS GOT a big brain He IS ABLE TO create simple useful objects with stones The evolution of man in Africa

5. HOMO SAPIENS He CAN hunt big animals He LOOKS LIKE a man HOMO SAPIENS SAPIENS He IS ABLE TO create useful objects with different materials He DRAWS pictures on the rock The evolution of man in Italy HOMO ERECTUS He LEARNS to stay erect He IS taller He DISCOVERS the fire He CAN speak He GOES FROM Africa to Asia and Europe

6. Cave Art using coloured powders

7. Cave Art: painting on the rock

8. Cave Art: carving on the rock

9. Cave Art: paintings

10. Cave Art using the whiteboard

13. Cave Art’s animation: the “taumatropio”

14. Cave Art’s animation using the ICT

15. Prehistory In our region Abruzzo

16. Prehistory In our region Abruzzo The oldest archaeological finding is dated from about 350.000-400.000 years ago and consist of flint tools, mainly large, two sided chipped stones. These items were discovered in the areas of Madonna del Freddo and the Zannini Farm near our town Chieti and also in the hills along the coast near Ortona and in an important settlements at the foot of the Maiella Mountain. These findings indicate the haunts and movements of groups of huntsmen and fruitpicker, belonging to the species of Homo Erectus, the most ancient population of this territory, last present 200.000- 150.000 years ago. Hand-axe Madonna del Freddo

17. Prehistory In our region Abruzzo The culture of the Mid-Palaeolithic Age, began 150.000 years back and spread up till 40.000 years ago, saw the appearance of some objects made by Neandertal Man. From 40.000 to about 10.000 years ago, Homo Sapiens was present in the area between Caramanico and Roccamorice, a strategic territory for hunting and extracting material. Here, in the area occupied by the ancient Marrucino people, many important examples of rock paintings have been discovered. Groups of humans and animal figures are represented together with typical geometric symbols (lines. circles, squares) Reproduction of rocks paintings in the Marrucino area

18. Protostoria (Early History) Copper Age ) Bronze Age Iron Age From the 4° millennium BC to 1° millennium BC Chieti’s Foundation 1108 BC

19. Prehistory In our region Abruzzo In the valley of Tirino river, thanks to its abundance of water and the happy easily defensible, position, between 9000 and 8000 years ago there existed one of the earliest settlements of Mesolithic Abruzzo. In the Tritana Valley the Neolithic comes much later - around 5000 BC - introduced by passing populations that teach impressed pottery.