1. 2.5 million years ago.- 3,500 B.C.

2. The Stone Age Mesolithic Era/ Middle Stone Age 40,000 B.C.-8,000 B.C.
Paleolithic
Era/ Old Stone Age
2.5 Million- 40,000B.C.
Neolithic/ New Stone Age
8,000 B.C.-
3,500 B.C.
-technology
-fire
-Hunters-gatherers
-Ice Age
-Ice thawing
-drawings
-moving out of caves
blades/hooks
-thawed!
-agriculture!
-communities
-domestication
-specialization

3. Paleolithic Era/ Old Stone Age
Ice Age
People lived in ________
They had rough or chipped tools, which is the earliest form of ___________
People would _______ for food or _______ berries. Therefore they were known as ________________.
caves
technology
hunt
gather
Hunters-gatherers

4. Animals These animals were alive in the Paleolithic Era/Old Stone Age:
Wooly Mammoth
Saber-Tooth Tiger

7. Rough or chipped tools of the Old Stone Age

8. Most scientists believe life started in Africa
In canyons of Tanzania

9. People were just learning how to use something that would enable them to move to colder climates.
(They could cook now too!)
Fire!

10. When hunting and gathering, it was important for people of the Stone Age to find food as well as _____________.
medicine
TASTY?
POISON?
MEDICINE?

11. Border Cave, Zululand Border Cave is in Zululand, South Africa
Here, scientists were able to find clues of what life was like 40,000 years ago
The people living here tried to make it comfortable with grass lining the floor and campfires to make it light.

12. Scientists found a baby buried here with seashell beads
Scientists found a baby buried here with seashell beads. What can you infer about the people of the Old Stone Age after this find?

13. The baby and the seashells show…
The baby was cared for
They believed in some sort of after life.
They had some sort of religion.
They valued beauty.
They traveled. (It’s 50 miles to the ocean!)

14. The ice will start to thaw……
This leads to the ______________ era.
Mesolithic

15. Mesolithic Era 40,000 B.C.- 8,000 B.C. The ice begins to thaw!
Cave Drawings
People begin moving out of caves
Technology advances: “barbs” or hooks, interchangeable blades
Wooly mammoths and saber tooth tigers are dying out
Some wolves are being tamed
Some sheep are being kept in pens

16. The New Stone Age
8, 000 BC- 3,500 BC

17. boar skull

18. What can you infer about people’s lives during the Neolithic Era?

19. Infer about this early community.
There are doors on the roof, but that is it!
There is one door to the community.
One in three buildings are a temple.
Wall paintings are inside.
They are all attached.
This was found on the banks of the Carsamba River in Turkey.
Lapis Lazuli from Afghanistan found

20. Neolithic 8,000 B.C.- 3,500 B.C. The ice has thawed!
Domesticated sheep for their wool and milk and dogs for hunting
Agriculture! Now they can live together.
Built mud brick shelters or tents
Now making stone farming tools, cloth and baskets
No more saber-toothed tigers or wooly mammoths.
Catal Hoyuk and Jericho

21. Two Neolithic Communities
Jericho
Catal Hoyuk

22. Ness of Brodgar- Orkney Islands, Scotland (5,000 yrs. Old)

23. Orkney Islands, Scotland

24. Skara Brae 3,180 B.C.- 2,500 B.C.