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Prehistory

Prehistory. What are we doing? We are studying the first developments of humankind Why are we doing it? It is important to understand the foundations of communication and human life to understand how the world got to the way it is today. Learning Targets.

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Prehistory

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  1. Prehistory What are we doing? We are studying the first developments of humankind Why are we doing it? It is important to understand the foundations of communication and human life to understand how the world got to the way it is today

  2. Learning Targets • Define Prehistory and the time span it covers • Analyze how the use of simple tools advanced humankind beyond all other mammals • Interpret early forms of communication • Understand the early developments that lead to civilization

  3. What is Prehistory? • What do you consider history? • Why do you call it history? • How do you know about it?

  4. Historical Record • Our “historical record” starts when human beings began using language and started writing things down

  5. Sooooo….. • Prehistory is = The period of time between the dawn of man and the first known uses of written communication

  6. The Prehistoric period • Major accomplishments • Tool manufacture and use • Communication • Verbal • Written? • Domestication of animals • And plants? • Finally: agriculture • The “First Wave”

  7. The Paleolithic period • “old stone age” • c. 500,000 BCE - c. 6000 BCE • Basic features • Hunting and gathering • Remarkable art (and religion?) • Simple tools of chipped stone • Simple shelters • Fire • c. 150,000 BCE? • Language

  8. The Neolithic period • Began in Middle East around 6000 BCE • to c. 3700 BCE • Basic features • Food production • Polished stone tools • and weapons? • More settled, less nomadic lifestyles • “permanent” villages • Population increases • Development of a more complex (and satisfying?) social order

  9. Timeline Events • Harnessing the power of fire • The first use of stone tools • Building of simple shelters • The use of complex tools • Language • The first “settled” communities • Building of permanent shelters • Domesticated animals • Domesticated plants • Agriculture

  10. Human evolution

  11. Homo erectus

  12. The mysterious Neanderthal • The subject of one of prehistory’s most intriguing questions

  13. Cromagnon • First “man” who really resembles us • Lived at the same time as Neanderthal

  14. c The peripatetic (nomadic) life

  15. Homo faber • Early stone tools • A. Homo habilis • B. Homo erectus • C. Neanderthal C. A. B.

  16. Eating • What was the more productive? • The hunter? • Or the gatherer?

  17. Lets find out for ourselves! • Phase 1: Read: Hunter-Gathers to Farmers • Phase 2: Play “Hunter or Gatherer?” • Phase 3: Watch Stone Age

  18. Extraordinary art!

  19. Cave art (cont.) • What general theme is evident here?

  20. Cave artists

  21. Paleolithic religion?

  22. Farming • Agricultural Revolution Lets read about the types of crops and animals that w were farmed!

  23. Settling down • Prerequisite to civilization

  24. Jericho • Jordan River valley • c. 8000 BCE

  25. Catal Hüyük • Modern Turkey • c. 6500 BCE

  26. Catal Hüyük (cont.)

  27. Jig-Saw Comparing Early Farming Civilizations

  28. The first writing?

  29. Neolithic religious life • Webquest

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