Bell Work Use the timeline on 24-25 to answer the following questions

1. Bell WorkUse the timeline on 24-25 to answer the following questions • About when did the first modern humans appear in Africa? • When did the Ice Ages end? • About how many years passed between the end of the Ice Ages and Catal Huyuk’s growth into a large town? • Why does the time line have breaks in it?

2. Prehistory Hominid Ancestor Tool Paleolithic Era Society Hunter-Gatherers Chapter 2: The Stone Ages and Early Cultures • Migrate • Ice Ages • Land bridge • Mesolithic Era • Neolithic Era • Domestication • Agriculture • Megaliths

3. How do movies, comic strips, television programs, video games, or other media.

4. Prehistory • Writing was not invented until about 5,000 years ago. Thus, historians call the time before there was writing prehistory.

5. Mary and Louis Leakey 1959 Bones in East Africa Date back 1.5 million years old Archaeologists(Important Discovers about prehistory) • Donald Johanson • 1974 • Bones in East Africa (Ethiopia) • Date back 3 million years old • Lucy

6. Lucy’s Skeleton • Woman • Small • Walked on 2 legs • Hominid

7. Early Hominids and Stone Age Tools • Australopithecus • Homo Habilis • Homo Erectus • Homo Sapien What is a tool?

8. The Stone Ages • The Stone Ages are divided into 3 periods based on the kinds of tools used at the time. Stone Ages • Paleolithic (Old Stone Age) • Mesolithic (Middle Stone Age) • Neolithic (New Stone Age)

9. Flow Chart Example 1 Hominids

10. Flow Chart Example 2 Hominids

11. Australopithecus Flow Chart Example 3 Homo Habilis Homo Erectus Homo Sapien

12. AssignmentCreate a Flow Chart • Use an entire page • Name of the Hominid • Nickname • Location of the hominid • List type of tools they used (made out of) • How did they create them • Explain what the tools were used for • Draw an example of the tool used

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15. Paleolithic PeriodHunter Gatherer SocietyPage 32 • Activities: • Identify the various activities going on in the picture. • Hardships • What hardships did early hunter-gatherers face, suggested by the picture? • Chores: • What is the difference between the men’s chores and women’s chores, shared chores?

16. Bell WorkWrite the Sentences • Read “Linking to Today” on page 33. Why weren't the Stone Age people’s tools as primitive as we might think? • T or F. Historians use the term prehistory to refer to the time before there was writing. • T or F. Scientists think the first tools were developed to use as weapons. • T or F. An important development of homo erectus was the ability to control fire. • Look at the cave painting on page 34. What do you think was the purpose of cave paintings?

18. Language-most important* Grunting, Gestures, Expressions Hunting easier Form relationships Resolve Issues (distribute food) Art-Cave Paintings Expressive Hunt? Religious? Religion-little knowledge Graves with food How did Stone Age people communicate? What is one possible reason for the development of language? Stone AgeLanguage, Art, Religion

19. Communicating Without Words Activity • Groups of 2 or 3 • 1 “speaker” two “guessers” • A piece of paper and pencil • No verbal speaking • Gestures, appropriate grunts (no, yes), facial expressions, signing, or drawings • You may not skip a card • Record your successes on the sheet of paper

20. The Icemanpage 35 • Why do you think the Iceman was in the Alps?

21. Did you Know The Iceman may have been hungry when he died. Scientists determined from studying a portion of the Iceman’s intestine that he had not eaten within eight hours of his death.

22. Exit Ticket • Who found the bones of Lucy? • Why do we need historians and archaeologists to study prehistory? • What is a hunter-gatherer? • What is the most important development of early Stone Age Culture? • List the tools that go with the following (in order): Australopithecus, homo habilis, homo erectus, homo sapien.