1. Early Farmers Objective -List the characteristics of the Stone Age. -Define and explain domestication. -Explain how the domestication of crops and animals changed the way people lived. -Explain how we know what animals domesticated during the Stone Age.

3. Stone Age Old Stone Age It began two million years ago. Humans relied on stone tools. The people discovered how to use fire, they were cooking, and they learned to work together. Technology or the way in which humans produce the items they use, advanced slowly. Advancements in technology such as using wood, bone, and antlers helped the people make work more feasible.

4. Examples of Old Stone Age Tools

5. People of the Old Stone Age The people were hunters and gatherers. The people were also nomads. This means that they wandered from place to place. They followed animals such as bison, wild horses, and mammoths.

6. A mammoth

7. Stone Age The New Stone Age It began roughly 10,000 years ago. Humans made great improvements in technology. Polished rock tools came into use. Humans began experimenting with wild plants and food crops. Humans began to domesticate, or tame wild animals. The domestication of animals led to cultivation, or using the land for crops. The New Stone Age ends when humans discover metals and metal working.

8. Catal Huyuk This city existed in what is now Turkey. Where are the people standing? How do they enter the house?

9. Catal Huyuk Actually located in the Hittite Museum in Ankara, these are recreations of a room in ancient Catal Hoyuk, (has several spellings, including Catalhuyuk), one of the very earliest of cities known to have existed. It flourished between 6000 and 8000 BCE, and is still being excavated.

10. Early Farming Grains, wheat, rice, and barley the first crops to be cultivated for human use. It was difficult to harvest, or gather, wild plants because the seeds scattered too much.