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Prehistory

A time before people developed a system of writing

2 Different Periods:Paleolithic Age (Old Stone Age)Neolithic Age (New Stone Age)

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How can we learn about people before there was anything written down?

Artifacts- any objects created or modified by man

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Examples of artifacts

WEAPONS

TOOLS

ART AND OTHER THINGS

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How do artifacts help us?

They can tell us what people ate, if they hunted or had a shelter, burial practices, etc.

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Prehistoric Humans

Homo habilis; skillful man Homo erectus; man who walks upright Homo sapiens; man who thinks

http://earlyhumans.mrdonn.org/tools.html
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Lucy

Much of what we know about very early man has been learned from a skeleton was found in Africa in 1974. 

This skeleton was of a young female who was about 20 when she died. 

She was named Lucy, and was about 4 foot tall and probably weighed about 50 pounds when she died. 

Her skeleton showed she walked upright and her brain was about the size of an orange. 

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How did geography influence the lives of early humans?

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Migration= Human movement

Early people started in parts of east Africa to Europe and Asia

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Ice Age

Approximatly 11,000 years ago there was an Ice Age on Earth

The Ice Age was a period of time when huge ice sheets covered the Earth

When the glaciers melted, temperatures rose and land could be farmed and animals could graze

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Animals of the Ice Age

Rhinoceros

sabre-toothed tiger

Wooly Mammoth

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How did people get to North America?

Beringia (now called the Bering Strait)

Went from Asia to North America

Formed a “land bridge”

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Early Humans

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Characteristics of Hunter Gatherer Societies

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The First Technology

Stone tools were the first pieces of technology

Technology is anything that makes man’s life easier

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Characteristics of Hunter-Gatherer Societies

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Characteristics of Hunter-Gatherer Societies

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