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Box Tops for EducationTeam points For every Box Top you turn in, your team will earn 5 points.Other rewards to followHow about a snack pass, easy listening passKey Terms ReviewThe time before a written languagePrehistoryEarly ancestor of humanshominid

Alabama Course of StudyExplain how artifacts and other archaeological findings provide evidence of the nature and movement of prehistoric groups of people.Identify terms used to describe characteristics of early societies and family structures.

Todays Learning TargetsI can define the vocabulary terms specific to this region and time.I can extrapolate the impact of humans upon the environment and environment upon humans.

4Warm-up QuestionsWhat tool did Mesolithic humans create to use near water?Fishing hooks & spearsWhat did humans use to make canoes?Hollowed out logs

5Key Terms ReviewPeople who hunt animals and gather wild plants, seeds, fruits, and nuts to surviveHunter-gatherersto divide among a group of peopledistribute

Key Terms ReviewWhen people first used stone toolsPaleolithic EraA community of people who share a common culturesociety

Key Terms ReviewThe process of changing plants or animals to make them more useful to humansdomesticationFarmingagriculture

Key Terms ReviewA relative who lived in the pastancestorAn object that has been modified to help a person accomplish a tasktool

Key Terms ReviewLong periods of freezing weatherice agesA huge stone monumentmegaliths

Key Terms ReviewTo move to a new placemigrateThe middle part of the Stone Age; marked by the creation of smaller and more complex toolsMesolithic Era

Key Terms ReviewThe New Stone Age; when people learned to make fire and tools such as saws and drillsNeolithic EraCreation ofdevelopment

Document AnalysisWe are going to be reading some documents today and you will determine the important information.

Document AnalysisNeolithic Stone Tools The Neolithic period began around 6,000 years ago when humans first settled down and began farming. They continued to make tools and weapons from flint and some kinds of tool, such as scrapers for preparing hides, stayed the same. But the Neolithic also saw the introduction of new kinds of stone tool. First there was a movement away from using microliths to make spears and arrows as composite weapons and instead the universal adoption of flint arrow heads. Second, the harvesting of gran required new tools such as scythes and these were made from flint. Neolithic tools were often retouched all over, by pressure flaking, giving a characteristic appearance and were often laboriously polished, again giving them a distinctive look. Flake tools continued to be made in the Neolithic, but they are often more crudely made than earlier flake tools

Todays Learning TargetsI can define the vocabulary terms specific to this region and time.I can extrapolate the impact of humans upon the environment and environment upon humans.

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