1. What do you know?
What do you already know about the lives of early humans?
Where did they come from?
How did they meet their basic needs for survival?
What kinds of developments did they make?
How did they express themselves?
How do we know the answers to these questions?

2. Paleolithic Era  Neolithic Era
Starting about 400,000 years ago…

4. Questions we will answer:
How did physical geography influence the lives of early humans?
What were the characteristics of hunter-gatherer societies?
How did the beginning of agriculture and the domestication of animals promote the rise of settled communities?
How does archaeology provide knowledge of early human life and its changes?

5. Beginning of Man
Homo sapiens emerged in east Africa between 100,000 and 400,000 years ago.
Homo sapiens migrated from Africa to Eurasia, Australia, and the Americas.
Early humans were hunters and gatherers whose survival depended on the availability of wild plants and animals.

7. Hunter-Gatherer Society
Were nomadic(migrated in search of food, water, shelter)
Invented the first tools, including simple weapons
Learned how to make and use fire
Lived in clans
Developed oral language
Created “cave art”

8. Paleolithic Inventions/Innovations

9. Societies during the Neolithic Era (New Stone Age)
Developed agriculture (domesticated plants)
Domesticated animals
Used advanced tools
Made pottery
Developed weaving skills
Created PICTOGRAMS: First form of written communication

10. Archaeology
Archaeologists study past cultures by locating and analyzing human remains, settlements, fossils, and artifacts.
Archaeologists apply scientific tests such as carbon dating to analyze fossils and artifacts.
Stonehenge is an example of an archaeological site in England that was begun during the Neolithic and completed during the Bronze Age.

11. Stonehenge

12. What do we know? Hunter-gatherer life was shaped by the environment.
Early humans began the process of overcoming their environment.
The beginning of agriculture and permanent settlements were big steps in the advance of civilization.
Archaeologists continue to find and interpret evidence of early humans and how they lived.

13. Warm-Up Hunter-gatherer life was shaped by ________________.
How did early humans begin the process of overcoming their environment?
The beginning of ___________ led to permanent settlements and was a big step in the advance of civilization.
Explain what ARCHAEOLOGISTS do. How do they do this?

14. Evolution of Humans Over Time
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20. How do we know? Carbon Dating!!