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The Stone Ages and Early Cultures Document Analysis Ancient Civilizations Mr. Magnanimous – World History

Alabama Course of Study EExplain how artifacts and other archaeological findings provide evidence of the nature and movement of prehistoric groups of people. Identify terms used to describe characteristics of early societies and family structures.

Today’s Learning Targets II can define the vocabulary terms specific to this region and time. II can extrapolate the impact of humans upon the environment and environment upon humans.

Warm-up Questions  What tool did Mesolithic humans create to use near water? Fishing hooks & spears  What did humans use to make canoes? Hollowed out logs

Key Terms Review  The time before a written language… Prehistory  Early ancestor of humans hominid

Key Terms Review  People who hunt animals and gather wild plants, seeds, fruits, and nuts to survive… Hunter-gatherers  to divide among a group of people… distribute

Key Terms Review  When people first used stone tools… Paleolithic Era  A community of people who share a common culture… society

Key Terms Review  The process of changing plants or animals to make them more useful to humans… domestication  Farming… agriculture

Key Terms Review  A relative who lived in the past… ancestor  An object that has been modified to help a person accomplish a task… tool

Key Terms Review  Long periods of freezing weather… ice ages  A huge stone monument… megaliths

Key Terms Review  To move to a new place… migrate  The middle part of the Stone Age; marked by the creation of smaller and more complex tools… Mesolithic Era

Key Terms Review  The New Stone Age; when people learned to make fire and tools such as saws and drills… Neolithic Era  Creation of… development

Document Analysis  We are going to be reading some documents today and you will determine the important information.

Document Analysis  Neolithic Stone Tools  The Neolithic period began around 6,000 years ago when humans first settled down and began farming. They continued to make tools and weapons from flint and some kinds of tool, such as scrapers for preparing hides, stayed the same. But the Neolithic also saw the introduction of new kinds of stone tool. First there was a movement away from using microliths to make spears and arrows as composite weapons and instead the universal adoption of flint arrow heads. Second, the harvesting of gran required new tools such as scythes and these were made from flint. Neolithic tools were often retouched all over, by pressure flaking, giving a characteristic appearance and were often laboriously polished, again giving them a distinctive look. Flake tools continued to be made in the Neolithic, but they are often more crudely made than earlier flake tools…

Document Analysis  A Settled Life  When people think of the Neolithic era, they often think of Stonehenge, the iconic image of this early era. Dating to approximately 3000 B.C.E. and set on Salisbury Plain in England, it is a structure larger and more complex than anything built before it in Europe. Stonehenge is an example of the cultural advances brought about by the Neolithic revolution—the most important development in human history. The way we live today, settled in homes, close to other people in towns and cities, protected by laws, eating food grown on farms, and with leisure time to learn, explore and invent is all a result of the Neolithic revolution, which occurred approximately 11,500- 5,000 years ago. The revolution which led to our way of life was the development of the technology needed to plant and harvest crops and to domesticate animals.

Today’s Learning Targets II can define the vocabulary terms specific to this region and time. II can extrapolate the impact of humans upon the environment and environment upon humans.