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Prehistory Paleolithic Period becomes Neolithic Period

Prehistory Paleolithic Period becomes Neolithic Period. An Overview. The prehistoric periods. c. 4.5 MYA-3700 BC Major accomplishments Tool manufacture and use Communication Verbal Written? Domestication of animals And plants? Finally: agriculture The “First Wave”.

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Prehistory Paleolithic Period becomes Neolithic Period

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  1. PrehistoryPaleolithic Period becomes Neolithic Period An Overview

  2. The prehistoric periods • c. 4.5 MYA-3700 BC • Major accomplishments • Tool manufacture and use • Communication • Verbal • Written? • Domestication of animals • And plants? • Finally: agriculture • The “First Wave”

  3. The Paleolithic period • “old stone age” • c. 500,000 BC - c. 4000 BC • Basic features • Hunting and gathering • Nomadic • Remarkable art • Simple tools of chipped stone • Simple shelters • Fire • c. 150,000 BC? • Language

  4. The nomadic life

  5. Extraordinary art!

  6. Cave art • What general theme is evident here?

  7. Cave artists

  8. Paleolithic religion?

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

  10. Beginning of Civilization • Six Characteristics • Cities • Government • Religion • Social Structure • Writing • Art

  11. The Neolithic period • Began in Middle East around 6000 BC • to c. 1700 BC • Basic features • Food production (basic farming) • Polished stone tools • and weapons? • More settled, less nomadic lifestyles • “permanent” villages • Population increases • Development of a more complex social order

  12. The Fertile Crescent Shaduf = Agriculture

  13. Farming

  14. Settling down • Prerequisite to civilization

  15. Jericho • Jordan River valley • c. 8000 BC

  16. Catal Hüyük • Modern Turkey • c. 6500 BC

  17. Catal Hüyük (cont.) • Homes of clay

  18. The first writing? • Pictographs become writing

  19. Neolithic religious life • Gods (figures) for good crops, leadership, explain social order Fertility Earth Mother Shaman Man’s Head

  20. Bronze Age leads to Iron Age • Copper Age - soft metal tools • Bronze Age - 3000 BC to 1200 BC • Copper and tin combined to make strong bronze tools • Iron Age – After about 1000 BC • Iron tools are stronger and better than bronze

  21. River Valleys • Civilizations grew in the river valleys of Mesopotamia, Egypt, India, and China • Water • Agriculture • Building materials • Culture developed • The way of life of people became more complex

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