1. Bellringer: 9/2 and 9/6
1. Pick up the papers on the desks at the front of the room.
2. Put your notes on your desk so I can check them as your first HW grade of the quarter.
2. Update your Table of Contents (ToC):
Page 4: Notes – Prehistory & the Paleolithic Era
Page 5: Worksheet: What Makes Us Human?
3. Write down your HW:
Read/take notes on pages 5-8 in your Duiker textbook; study for your Maps & Time quiz NEXT CLASS

2. AGENDA: 9/2 and 9/6
1. Bellringer
2. Notes: Prehistory + The Paleolithic Era
3. Video/Discussion: What Makes Us Human?
4. Kahoot Review: Maps & Time

3. Development of Human Civilization through The Neolithic Revolution

4. Evolution of Human History
Paleolithic
2 Million BCE
Old Stone Age
Ice Age
Hunter-Gatherers
Stone Tools
Prehistoric
Neolithic
8,000 BCE
New Stone Age
Agriculture
Societies Develop
Complex Tools
Development of Writing
Complex Societies
Metal Working
Historic
3,000 BCE
Historic

5. What is Prehistory?
Before we can learn history, first we have to understand what prehistory is
Prehistory: the period of time before people started writing things down
Humans, and their ancestors, lived for hundreds of thousands of years before anything was written down.
Basically, stuff happened before people wrote it down!
So what happens after man learns to write?
Man only learned to write 5,000 years ago!
When stuff started to get written down, that's the start of recorded history

6. Who Studies History? What do historians do?
Historians study, write, and teach about the past
Learn about the past from artifacts
Historians study/learn about history via artifacts = stuff made by man

7. Examples of Artifacts:

8. Examples of Artifacts:

9. Examples of artifacts include:
Coin, art, tombstones, newspapers, written records
Use artifacts to try to figure out why stuff happened

10. Beyond Historians: Anthropologists
Anthropologists study people and societies they live in
Some study how people live today, and some study how they lived in the past
Anthropologists = study modern-day cultures

11. Beyond Historians: Archaeologists
Archaeologists study culture and societies of people, only they study people no longer around
Since they can't observe their subjects or interview them, archaeologists study the artifacts they've left behind
Study these things to better understand how ancient people lived, and what they believed

12. A Brief Look At How We Got Here
Human beings, mankind as we are today, are the product of millions of years of development

14. 1. Hominids
Humans, or Homo sapiens, are from a class of animals called Hominids
Hominids: creatures that walk upright on two feet as their way of transportation
There used to be many kinds of hominids on Earth, but now humans are the last and only

15. Hominids Up-Close: Australopithecus
Australopithecus (“Lucy”) was the first hominid. The first hominid, or the first animal to walk on two-feet all the time, was Australopithecus
Emerged in Eastern Africa (the Great Rift Valley) between 3 and 4 million years ago.

16. Lucy video

17. 2. Homo habilis (or the “handy man”)
Type of hominid that lived 2 million years ago
“Handy Man”
Made and used basic tools for cutting, scraping, and chopping materials
From Eastern Africa

18. 3. Homo erectus Lived 1.6 million years ago Walked fully upright
Was able to use fire
More advanced tools like the ax
SPREADS OUT!
To Africa, Asia, Europe

19. 4. Neanderthal From 100,000 to 30,000 years ago.
Found in Europe and Southwest Asia (country of Turkey today)
Discovered in Germany near the Neander River
Adaptable!
Lived in cold climates, adapted with shelters and animal skins
Physically large muscles and bones
Buried their dead = religious?
Vanished 30,000 years ago

20. 5. Homo sapiens (“wise man”)
First in East Africa 100,000 to 400,000 years ago
Migrated from Africa to Eurasia (Europe and Asia), Australia, and the Americas.
Cave Paintings
Cro-Magnons = early form of Homo sapiens
Homo sapiens sapiens = us today
Lived alongside Neanderthals until Neanderthals mysteriously vanished 30,000 years ago
Only remaining hominid on Earth

21. Path Out of Africa

22. Eras of Prehistory
1. Paleolithic Era or Old Stone Age (2 million B.C. To 10,000 B.C.)
2. Neolithic Era or New Stone Age (10,000 B.C. To 3,000 B.C.)

23. Era #1: Paleolithic Era / Old Stone Age
Nomadic people
Why?
Migrating to hunt and gather food, water, and shelter
Invented the first simple tools, including simple weapons
Learned how to make and use fire
Lived in clans (20-30 people)
Developed oral language
Created “Cave Art”

25. Era #1: Paleolithic Era / Old Stone Age
Began to travel around the world
Might be religious?
100,000 years ago began to bury their dead- sign of religion or a belief in the afterlife
Many may have practiced animism- belief that spirits inhabit animals and objects

26. Bellringer: 9/7 and 9/8
TBD

27. AGENDA: 9/7 and 9/8
TBD

28. Era #2: Neolithic Era / New Stone Age
People farm = Neolithic Era begins
Means not nomadic anymore
Man can stay in one place and build permanent villages
Domesticate plants and animals (dogs, goats, horses, etc.)
Used advanced tools
Made pottery
Developed weaving skills
All this change is a revolution Neolithic Revolution!