1. The Old Stone Age (The Paleolithic Era)
Ch. 2
The Old Stone Age (The Paleolithic Era)
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2. Ch. 2 Vocabulary Words Technology Land bridge Paleolithic Era Glacier
Hunter-gatherer
Edible
Eland
Land bridge

3. The Old Stone Age (The Paleolithic Era)
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4. 1/3 of the Earth was once covered
The Ice Age
1/3 of the Earth was once covered

5. The Migration of Man

6. There was another important development – the discovery of fire.
Old Stone Age (Paleolithic Era)
Development
There was another important development – the discovery of fire
There was another important development – the discovery of fire.

7. The Old Stone Age
(The Paleolithic Era)

8. The Old Stone Age or the Paleolithic Era, was a period of time that lasted until about 12,000 to 70,000 years ago.

9. How did man survive?
Man survived by hunting animals and gathering roots, berries, leaves, and seeds.

10. Hunting
Old Stone Age (Paleolithic Era) people eventually began to hunt in groups.
Cave Art showing men hunting in groups
These antlers may have been used
as a disguise during the hunt.

11. Hunted Animals
Mammoth
Wild Boar
Reindeer

12. Roots, Berries, and Other Plant Life
Gathering...
Roots, Berries, and Other Plant Life
Scurvy Grass
Crowberry
Shabby Inkcaps
Wild Cabbage
Morel
Goosebury

13. Cave Art

14. A Way to Communicate

15. Old Stone Age (Paleolithic Era) Tools
Man used stone, wood, and bone tools to survive during the Old Stone Age.

16. Bow found in Denmark
Hand Axe
Flint Blades used to sharpen tools
Bone Harpoon

17. Food Processing using a flint blade to skin an animal
using a flint blade to butcher
a carcass

18. Lascaux Cave

19. The Migration of Man

21. Many Stone Age people were Nomads, or people who had no settled home.

22. Neanderthals-lived 200,000 years ago
Still, Neanderthals were different from other species of early humans. They were tall and smart, and used caves as their homes. They were great hunters.
Considering how smart they were, and how advanced for their time, scientists are puzzled that the Neanderthals were one of the early species of man to die out. Many species of man died out in these early days. But why the Neanderthals? It is a history mystery.

23. Where did they go?

24. Cro-Magnon Man
Cro-Magnon man -early Homo sapiens (the species to which modern humans belong) that lived 40,000 years ago.

25. Cro-Magnon Man- 40,000 years ago
Another group of early men stood out during this period. Scientists nicknamed this group “Cro-Magnon man”.
Cro-Magnon man lived in Europe.
This group did not live a life of constant struggle for survival because they worked together to provide food for their tribe.

26. Cro-Magnon Man
These Stone Age people learned to cure and store food for the long winter. They used traps, which allowed them to catch food while they were busy doing something else. Fisherman used nets woven from vines and fishhooks.
Some groups built rafts and canoes to catch bigger fish in deeper waters.
They made clothing and jewelry. They invented the bow and arrow.

27. Cave Paintings
Cro-Magnon man did something rather unusual. For some reason, he drew paintings deep inside dark caves, on cave walls.
His paintings were added to the paintings already on the cave walls, left by other Cro-Magnon men.
Over time, a cave might accumulate hundreds of paintings. Colors used most often were brown, yellow/tan, dark red, and coal black.

28. Cave Paintings
Animals were well drawn and filled in with natural colors to give them even more shape and substance. They drew stick figures for hunters. They drew stencils of hands.

29. Blombos Cave
The carved blades with designs were found in a South African cave.
Scientists believe that this technology dates back about 70,00 years ago, making them at least 30,000 years older than any other reliably dated….

30. Border Cave-Religion and Art
Click on the picture

31. Characteristics of Paleolithic Period
The people were hunters and gatherers
They lived in small groups of about people
Nomadic people who followed game and ripening fruit
Developed simple tools from stone, bone or wood
Invented clothing
Cave paintings and religious rituals

32. Beringia-the LAND BRIDGE connecting Asia and North America

33. Mesolithic Era
The Mesolithic Era is the middle era of the Stone Age. They had new tools but still used stone. They introduced bone tools, bow and arrows, canoes and pets.

34. Mesolithic Era 10, B.C.
They began their pottery and began to tame different kinds of animals, starting with dogs.

35. The Agricultural Revolution
All right,so there was going to be a great change...
The Agricultural Revolution

36. People began to settle in one place and grow their own food.
New Way of Living?
People began to settle in one place and grow their own food.

37. NEOLITHIC ERA B.C.
“Agricultural Revolution” = domestication of plants & animals
Literal Meaning: New Stone Age
The first permanent human settlements emerged
Still used stone tools
Pottery appears

38. What did they grow, tame? Where was this happening?
Let’s find out by looking in our textbook lesson 3!