1. Early Humans Pretest WORD BANK Fossils Nomadic Homo sapien Archeology
Africa
Fire
Hunters/gatherers
Fertile Crescent
Clans
agriculture

2. Africa Map Label the following physical features on your map:
Nile River
Niger River
Sahara
Atlantic Ocean
Indian Ocean
Mediterranean Sea
Red Sea
When you are done labeling your map, color it according to these directions:
Outline the rivers in blue
Color the deserts yellow
  Color the mountains brown
Color the oceans and seas light blue
When you are done, make a KEY in the empty white box to explain the different colors and symbols on your map.

3. 9/15/14 (Block 3)
Journal: What do you know about early humans? (think: where, when, describe life)
Agenda:
Turn in Africa Map & Check for Supplies
Early Human Notes (#14)
Paleolithic vs. Neolithic (#15)
First Farmers Reading and Activity (#16)

4. Paleolithic and Neolithic Eras
Early Humans
Paleolithic and Neolithic Eras

5. Where were early hominids found?

6. Early Humans
Early Humans were called HOMO SAPIENS: Latin for “wise man”
Humans first appeared in Africa and migrated or moved to:
Eurasia (Europe and Asia)
Australia
Americas

7. Homo Sapien movement throughout history.
Migrated from Africa-> Eurasia, Australia & the Americas.

8. Human Migration
This map shows migration patterns

9. Early Humans
Early humans were nomadic. They moved around to find food, water and shelter.
They relied on HUNTING and GATHERING to find wild plants and animals to eat.

10. Early Humans During the Paleolithic Era (Old Stone Age) early humans:
Made fire
Lived in clans (groups of families)
Developed oral (spoken) language
Created cave art
Had tools made out of animal bones

11. What do you see here? What did the early humans use for paint?

12. Early Humans During the Neolithic Era (New Stone Age) humans:
Developed agriculture (farming), by growing plants to eat
Tamed animals to use in farming – also called domestication
Made pottery and developed weaving skills

13. The Neolithic Revolution was the result of the beginnings of farming which changed life.
As the planet warmed up the growing seasons lengthened.
This allowed for populations to begin farming.

14. The farmers also began to domesticate, or tame animals.

15. Drawings of what life might have been like for early humans

16. Stone Age Song

17. Exit Ticket
Using the graphic organizer given, compare and contrast the Paleolithic and Neolithic Eras.

18. Class reading- PLEAse do not write on these!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
The First Farmers
Class reading- PLEAse do not write on these!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

19. First Farmers Reading (#16)
What makes a farmer a farmer (think: what did they do?)
Why would populations grow after the Ice Age ended?
Where did farmers originally settle?
Were there new inventions? If so, what were they?
How did farming change life? What might it lead to that didn’t exist before?

20. 9/17/14
Journal: How do we know what we know about the early humans if they didn’t write anything down?

21. AGENDA Journal Review Paleolithic and Neolithic Eras (#17)
Archeology notes (#18)
Vocabulary Activity/ Quiz

22. REVIEW!!! Paleolithic Era Neolithic Era Hunter-gatherer societies:
Nomads
Invented 1st tools
Learned how to make & use fire
Lived in clans
Developed oral language
Created “cave art”
More settled societies:
Developed agriculture (farming, domesticated plants)
Domesticated animals
Used advanced tools
Made pottery
Developed weaving skills

23. ARCHEOLOGY

24. How do we know about the past?
Archaeologists study past cultures by finding:
Human remains
Settlements
Fossils
Artifacts

25. Archaeology
Carbon Dating: is used by archaeologists as a test to find the age of an artifact or fossils
Stonehenge: famous archaeological site in England

26. Early Human Cities
Aleppo: Located in Syria. Part of Ancient Mesopotamia and Babylon.

27. Early Human Cities
Jericho: Located in the West Bank of Israel. One of the oldest continuously occupied cities.

28. Early Human Cities
Çatalhöyük: Located in Anatolia (modern day Turkey)

29. Early Humans Lucy the hominid, was one of the first early humans found
She was 3 feet 8 inches tall, weighed 65 lb