1. August 5, 2015 Put your phone in its pocket!
Bell Ringer: What artifact’s true purpose yesterday surprised you?
Cornell Notes
Prehistory, Human Migration, and the Neolithic Revolution
HW: Flow Chart of Agricultural Revolution Due Friday 8/7

2. Cornell Notes

4. Review of Artifact Activity
What did you learn from yesterday’s activity?
What do archeologists do?
How have archeologists enhanced the study of prehistory?

5. What is prehistory?
Pre = before
Prehistory = Before written history

6. Prehistoric Times Old Stone Age – Paleolithic
Tools were of stone, wood, bone
People were nomads – moved around a lot
Hunter-gatherer

9. Change of Cranial Capacity Over Time Big Brains = Smarter

11. Leakey Footsteps in Tanzania

12. Ian Tattersall: Usually behavior has to be inferred indirectly from the evidence of bones and teeth, and there is almost always argument over inferences of this kind. But at Laetoli, through these footprints, behavior itself is fossilized.

13. Lucy 3.5 million years old hominid
Most nearly complete skeleton of any erect walking pre- human found up to that time.
She was 3 ½ feet tall and weighed 60 pounds.

14. Lucy

15. Neanderthal Man – Duck Dynasty Ancestors?

17. Cro Magnon Man/ Homo Sapiens – da Vinci’s Grandpa?

18. Migration of Early Man

19. What does art tell us about a society? Cave artists

20. Lascaux Cave, France

22. Mesolithic Age Paleolithic Age
Old Stone Age
Middle Stone Age
Domestication of animals and beginning of a more settled existence
Bows, arrows, stone axes with handles
Hunter-gather
Nomadic
Basic Stone Tools

24. Neolithic – New Stone Age
Agricultural Revolution – switch from food hunting to food producing
Farming Permanent Settlements
More Advanced Technology
More food
More people

25. The Fertile Crescent

26. Farming

27. Settling down
Prerequisite to civilization

28. Crash Course: World History Agriculture
F80C9

29. Compare and Contrast Paleolithic Age Neolithic Age
Food: Hunter/Gatherer, wild animals, wild grains and berries
Shelter: Temporary Caves or tents
Societal Structure: Small nomadic groups
Food: Agriculture, domesticated animals
Shelter: Permanent settlements
Societal Structure: Differentiated jobs, large sedentary populations

30. Start working on Neolithic Revolution Flow Chart
Paleolithic Age-
Old Stone Age
Hunter-gatherers
Nomadic
Increased population in cities