Prehistoric PeoplePrehistoric PeopleChapter 2Chapter 2

Prehistoric Man looked like??? Prehistoric Man looked like???

Mr. Otis?Mr. Otis? Mr. Fisk? Mr. Fisk? Mr. Mr. Edwards?Edwards?

Not her!!!!!!!!

I.I. Paleolithic AgePaleolithic AgeThe Old Stone AgeThe Old Stone Age

• Great MigrationGreat Migration– Ice AgeIce Age– People move from Africa to Europe/AsiaPeople move from Africa to Europe/Asia

• Obtaining FoodObtaining Food– Small groups 20-30Small groups 20-30– Home territoryHome territory– Women gatheredWomen gathered– Men hunted and fishedMen hunted and fished– Life was hard!Life was hard!

More More Prehistoric Animals

Giant Bear video

Prehistoric Beasts

Can you Build a Beast?

Wooly mammoth

Saber tooth cat

Giant sloth

ContinuedContinued

• Making toolsMaking tools– Sticks, stones, and Sticks, stones, and

bonesbones– Olduvan Pebble Tools Olduvan Pebble Tools

are oldestare oldest

• Making FireMaking Fire– Accidental discoveryAccidental discovery– Weapon, cooking, Weapon, cooking,

tool, etc.tool, etc.

• SheltersShelters– Hole in the groundHole in the ground– CavesCaves

ContinuedContinued

• Clothing- animal skinsClothing- animal skins• LanguageLanguage

– Grunts and groansGrunts and groans– Hand signalsHand signals

Cave of Lascaux, France

Discovered by four boys in 1940.

Caves are filled with pictographs and petroglyphs of hundreds of animals.

There are almost 600 pictures of animals, mostly horses.

Other animals painted are stags, bulls, bison, and ibex.

Only one man is painted.

What can we learn from these cave paintings???????????????????

Neanderthal

• First Homo Sapiens- First Homo Sapiens- thinkers thinkers

• Skilled hunters and Skilled hunters and buildersbuilders

• Buried their deadBuried their dead

Mr. Fisk Mr. Haley

“He is so brave”

Cro MagnonCro Magnon

• Invented the burin and axeInvented the burin and axe• Body ornamentsBody ornaments• MusicMusic• Social classesSocial classes• GovernmentGovernment

  Neanderthal People Cro-Magnon People

When they lived 200,000 B.C.- 30,000 B.C.?

(may have been absorbed by Cro-Magnon)

30,000 B.C.-  10,000 B.C.

Physical characteristics

powerfully built heavy jaws, thick eyebrow ridges, large noses

looked more like modern people; high foreheads, well defined chins, small eyebrow ridges

Where they lived Europe, the Middle East, Asia, lived in caves

southern France and Spain; lived in caves

Tools they used more efficient tools than preceding groups used fire to develop new techniques for fashioning bifacial tools, arrowheads and scrapers, implements that were essential for the survival of his tribe.

more advanced tools than Neanderthal greater use of the animals he had hunted. The skins were used to make clothes, antlers to make tool handles, needles and hooks and he gradually began to farm the land and then to breed animals (from 5000 BC).

Important Accomplishments

wore clothes; cared for the sick; buried the dead with tools; probably the first to cook food

invented the spear; better hunters,  could draw and paint,

II.II. Neolithic Age- Neolithic Age- New Stone Age 10,000 New Stone Age 10,000

yrs. agoyrs. ago• People learn to People learn to

produce food. HOW?produce food. HOW?• Villages formedVillages formed

– JerichoJericho– Catal HuyukCatal Huyuk

• Specialization of jobsSpecialization of jobs– Increases food Increases food – People take on other People take on other

occupationsoccupations– People become more People become more

advancedadvanced• Government developingGovernment developing• Religion emergingReligion emerging

Paleolithic Vs. NeolithicPaleolithic Vs. Neolithic

• Small groupsSmall groups• Hunting and Hunting and

gatheringgathering• Lives devoted to Lives devoted to

survivalsurvival• Not very Not very

advancedadvanced

• Larger groupsLarger groups• Settled livesSettled lives• VillagesVillages• Specialization of Specialization of

LaborLabor• Able to produce Able to produce

foodfood• Similar to us Similar to us

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