The Paleolithic Era to the Agricultural Revolution

2011-2012 WHI SOLPart I

Homo Sapiens emerged in _______________ between

100,000 and 400,000 years ago

Africa

What continents did homo sapiens migrate to?

Europe, Asia, Australia, North America, and South America

The survival of early humans depended on the availability of

wild plants and animals. Because of this, how do we

describe these early humans?

hunter gatherers

This age is known as the old stone age, it lasted from about 2.5 million years ago to 8000

B.C.

Paleolithic Age

During the Paleolithic age, people wandered from place to place instead of settling

down. What do we call these people?

Nomads

Name three things that the nomads were searching for:

Food, water, and shelter

People of the Paleolithic age learned to use this for light, to

keep warm, and cook their food

Fire

People of the Paleolithic age also were the first to make

these to help them with hunting, building shelters, making fires, and even for

protection.

tools and weapons

Paleolithic people lived in small groups of only 20 or 30 people. They traveled and lived with a

group of families that were related to each other. What is the term for

this type of group?

A clan

Paleolithic people also created works of art, including

painting. Thousands of years ago, artists mixed charcoal, mud, and animal blood to

make paint. They used this paint to draw pictures of

animals on rocks and in these

caves

Paleolithic cave art is an example of what type of

writing?

Pictographs

Over the years, some humans realized that they could leave

plant seeds in an area one year and find plants growing there the next year. This was the beginning

of this era

The Neolithic Revolution

Neolithic people learned how to tame animals and plants for farming purposes. What is this

called?

Domestication

Neolithic people also made these things for carrying and

storing goods

Pottery and baskets

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These scientists study past cultures by locating and

analyzing human remains, settlements, fossils, and

artifacts.

Archaeologists

Remains, such as tools jewelry, pottery, and other things made

by humans

Artifacts

Archaeologists apply this scientific test to date fossils

and artifacts.

carbon dating

An example of an archaeological site in England that was begun during the Neolithic Age and

completed during the Bronze Age.

Stonehenge

Two examples of early cities in the Fertile Crescent studied by

archaeologists.

Aleppo and Jericho

.Aleppo

an example of a Neolithic settlement currently under

excavation in Anatolia.

Çatalhöyük

The Neolithic period is considered to have ended

when this began?

Writing