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2. prehistory
Hominids
(Key Finds)
 The time before writing. Historians rely on the
work of archaeologist and anthropologist to
discover the past.
Early human ancestors
 1. Mary and Louis Leaky
 Found bones of hominids in East Africa in 1960
 2. Donald Johansen
 Found “Lucy”. Test showed she lived more than 3
million years ago and walked of two legs.
 3. Tim White
 Found even older remains from as long as 4.4 million
years ago.

4. First
Appearance
 Groups of hominids appeared about 3 million
years ago. (Johansen)
 A group of hominids called Homo erectus, or
upright man, appeared in Africa about 1.5 million
years ago.
 Many scientists think that modern humans
appeared about 200,000 years ago in Africa.

5. The way humans change their environment
Example:
Before – natural desert landscape with pockets of farming.
After – roads, houses, and retail stores are built.

7. Stone Tools

9. Nomads
Societies
Hunter-
Gatherers
Discovery
of Fire
 A person who has no settled home (dwelling).
 Traveled in groups of 20-30.
 Keep moving to new places to find food.
 A community of people who share a common culture
 Nomads hunted and gathered food for the group.
 Men = hunters & Women = gatherers
 Hunted animals & gathered wild plants
 Discovered during the Old Stone Age.
 How could this new technology changed the lives of
nomads during the Paleolithic Era?
 Allowed Effects food to of be the cooked Discovery for the of 1st Fire
time.
 Nomads could move to colder climates.

10. Nomad
Migration
Migrated from Africa approx. 1 million years
ago.
Built temporary dwellings of branches and
animals skins.
Built near a water source.
 Why?
Once the nomadic group gathered all the food
in the area they moved on…

12. Summary: Summarize how early humans lived during
the Paleolithic Era.

13. Create a Thinking Map that
illustrates elements of the Paleolithic
Era.
What style of Thinking Map will you create?

14. Paleolithic
Era

15. Paleolithic
Era
No settled
home
20-30
Nomad

16. Revolution Essential Question
What is a revolution? Is it
positive or negative? Does
it always involve war or
violence?

17. Neolithic Greek for “new stone” (neo
= new & lithic = stone)
Known as the “New Stone
Age”

18. Mesopotamia
Fertile
Crescent
About 11,000 years ago
FARMING was discovered.
Discovered in Asia
Fertile Crescent (modern day
Middle East)
Started the Neolithic
Revolution.

19. Development
of Farming
EFFECT = early humans no
longer had to be nomads. They
could now settle in one place.
Still depended on STONE
TOOLS.
Used the seeds from BIGGEST
and best tasting plants to plant
crops, which led to…

20. Domestication To adapt wild plants for
human use; to tame wild
animals for human use.
Over time, this careful
selection of seeds and roots
from each crop led to the kinds
of food we eat today.

21. Domestication During the New Stone Age / Neolithic
Revolution, early humans learned to tame
wild animals and breed them for human
use.
1st domesticated animal = dog
Valuable in hunting
Sheep, goats, & pigs.
Meat, milk, & wool
Over time, herders developed animals
that were gentler than their wild
ancestors and provided more resources.

23. Cave Paintings Hand painted/drawn images inside
caves on cave walls.
Images were added over & over to the
cave walls.
Over time, a cave could accumulate
hundreds of cave drawings/paintings.
Colors used:
 Brown
 Yellow
 Tan
 Dark Red
 Coal Black

25. Ice Age About 1.6 million years ago, many places
around the world began to experience long
periods of freezing weather, called the ice
ages
The ice ages ended about 10,000 years ago.
Huge sheets of ice covered much of the earth’s
land.
Many areas that are now underwater were
then dry land. A land bridge, or strip of land
connecting two continents, probably
connected Asia and North America.

26. New Stone Age Early humans learned how to cure
and store food for the long winter.
Used hand-made traps to catch
animals (food).
Development of primitive types of
boats.
EFFECT = catch bigger fish in deeper
water.

28. New Stone Age Early humans learned how to cure
and store food for the long winter.
Used hand-made traps to catch
animals (food).
Development of primitive types of
boats.
EFFECT = catch bigger fish in deeper
water.
Made clothing & jewelry.
Invention of the 1st primitive bow &
arrow.

29. CIVILIZATION By 3,500 B.C. small farming
communities in the Middle
East were developing into
the world’s 1st cities, marking
the rise of CIVILIZATION.

30. Centralized
Infrastructure
Farming led to the development
of larger societies and eventually
civilization.
It is essential that you remember
the patterns of civilization:
1. Growth of Centralized Government
2. Organized Religion
3. Writing
4. Artistic Activity
5. Social Structure
6. Rise of Cities/Infrastructure

31. Catal Huyuk
Modern Turkey
First settled:
c. 7000BCE
Jericho
Modern Israel
First settled:
c. 7000BCE

32. Summary: Describe how early humans lived during the
Neolithic Revolution.

33. Create a web diagram that illustrates
elements of the Neolithic Revolution.