Interactive Notebook Set Up

1. Interactive Notebook Set Up • Date: 8/6/2018 • Paleolithic & Neolithic Age • This will be on 1 page

2. Paleolithic Age Neolithic/Agricultural Revolution:

3. Paleolithic Age • The Paleolithic Age is the early period of human history that spans from 2,500,000 B.C.E to 10,000 B.C.E • The name comes from the Greek word for “old stone” • This due to the prominent use of stone tools

4. Paleolithic Age • During this time period humans got their food through a process called hunting and foraging • They would gather things such as nuts, berries, grains, greens, ect • They would hunt and or fish depending on where they lived

5. Paleolithic Hunters

6. Paleolithic Gathers

7. Paleolithic Age • Developed new tools and technology to better hunter/forage and adapt to their region/climate • Stone/bone tools, storage/baskets, art/decoration, ect

8. Paleolithic Age • Most important technology of the Paleolithic Age wasFIRE • Fire provided a huge number of benefits for people: • Easier digestion of food • Protection from predators • Warmth to adapt to colder climates • Story telling • Making clothing and art

9. Paleolithic Age • Finding food through hunting and foraging is not extremely reliable • Because hunting and forage was so unreliable nomadic humans groups were always relatively small • They would be around 20-30 individuals

10. Paleolithic Age • These early humans were nomads • These humans moved based on vegetation/seasonal climates & animal migration • Cause of SLOW migration from Africa to Eurasia, Australia, and America • Called PEOPLING OF THE EARTH

12. Paleolithic Age • Peoples, ideas, and technology were exchanged as groups interacted with one another

13. Paleolithic Age • Hunting and foraging shows us the first example of women and men being responsible for distinctly different tasks • Men were more often responsible for the hunting of larger animals • This means that they would travel far from the camps in order to hunt

15. Paleolithic Age • Women were more likely to stay close to camps • Mostly due to the fact that women gave birth and raised children • Women also foraged for food, trapped small animals, and protected the camp

16. Paleolithic Age • Even though women and men were responsible for different tasks there is no evidence that either men or women were superior to one another • This is because the contributions of women were viewed as equally important to those of men

17. Paleolithic Art • The first evidence of art comes from the Paleolithic Age • The earliest evidence comes in the form of “Venus” figurines • The earliest of which dates back around 40,000 years

18. Paleolithic Art • One of the most prominent examples of Paleolithic are comes in the form of cave paintings • The image to right dates around 32,000 B.C.E

19. Paleolithic Art

20. Paleolithic Art

21. Paleolithic Art • The art of this time is important for a few reasons: • It demonstrates abstract thought • It demonstrates the existence of free time and likely craft specialization • It is an EXCELLENT information source

22. The Neolithic Revolution • Beginning around 12,000 years ago(10,000 B.C.E) humans began to produce food of their own • This is referred to as either the Agricultural Revolution or the Neolithic Revolution • There is no universally accepted theory of how or why humans began farming

23. The Neolithic Revolution • Agricultural production may have developed in response to climate change leading to a die off of large game and need to live where there is reliable food supply • This forces humans to need to create a new way to feed themselves

24. The Neolithic Age • With the birth of agriculture came the beginning of the Neolithic Age • It is hard to attribute specific dates to the Neolithic Age, because farming developed at different times in different parts of the world • The Neolithic Age begins around 10,000 B.C.E in most parts of the world

25. The Neolithic Revolution • Agriculture emerged firstin the lands of the eastern Mediterranean • Called the Fertile Crescent • The Levant was the first region to develop agriculture • Evidence suggests that the first plant to be domesticated was the fig, as far back as 9,400 BCE

26. The Levant

28. The Neolithic Revolution • Agriculture emerged independently throughout the world • Each region domesticated locally available plants and animals • In Mesopotamia, the Nile River Valley, Sub-Saharan Africa, the Indus River Valley, the Yellow River (or Huang He) Valley, Papua New Guinea, Mesoamerica, and the Andes

29. The Neolithic Revolution • Though the fig was the first plant domesticated the domestication of grain, rice, maize, potatoes, were the most important • As plants were domesticated so too were animals • Humans began to breed animals and use animals for many different purposes • Dogs were the first animal to be domesticated • After dogs came the pig, the cow, the sheep, and goat

31. Domestication of Animals

32. The Neolithic Revolution • Pastoralism developed around the same time as agriculture in Afro-Eurasia • Pastoral groups increased the development and exchange of technology, animals, and seeds/crops

34. Domesticated Animals • Uses for animals included: Hunting Meat Pelts Working Milk and Cheese

35. The Neolithic Revolution • Reliable food source=food surplus • Food surplus=HUGE growth in population • Get used to this concept we are going to see it ALL THE TIME • FOOD SURPLUS=POPULATION GROWTH every darn time!!!

36. Population Growth

37. The Neolithic Revolution • Agricultural communities had to work cooperatively and altered the environment to increase food production • Ways humans altered their environment: • Clear cut areas • Dig out rocks and other materials • Create irrigation systems