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WHAT IS PREHISTORY? Prehistory is the time before there were written records.

Creation of Earth, 4.5 billion years ago. “Age of Fish”, 600 million years ago. WHAT IS PREHISTORY? Prehistory is the time before there were written records. “Age of Reptiles”, 220 million years ago. Early Man, 65 million years ago. Earth. Dinosaurs. Early Man. Stone Age.

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WHAT IS PREHISTORY? Prehistory is the time before there were written records.

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  1. Creation of Earth, 4.5 billion years ago “Age of Fish”, 600 million years ago WHAT IS PREHISTORY? Prehistory is the time before there were written records. “Age of Reptiles”, 220 million years ago Early Man, 65 million years ago

  2. Earth Dinosaurs Early Man Stone Age

  3. Australopithecus 1-5 million years ago Earliest forms of HOMINDS: upright, bipedal primate mammals More like apes than humans

  4. Homo Habilis: “Handy Man”First human speciesabout 2 million years ago • 30% larger brain than Australopithecus • Able to walk upright • Use of tools What is the importance of being able to walk upright?

  5. Homo Erectus 400,000-2 million years ago • 50% larger brain that homo habilis • Used tools • First species to use & control fire • NOMADIC people • Hunters-gatherers • Originated in Africa; migrated to • Europe & Asia Changes in Homo Erectus

  6. Homo Sapiens • Earliest form of modern man • Lived 300,000 – 400,000 years ago • Found throughout Africa, Asia • and Europe

  7. Neanderthal Man (Homo Sapiens) What common misconceptions exist about Neanderthal Man?

  8. Homo sapiens sapiens arrived during the Paleolithic Age (Old Stone Age) Homo Sapiens Sapiens: Modern Human Beings130,000 years ago - present Carving of human head, 26,000 years old • Improved tools & weapons • Cave Art • Venus figurines • Needles for sewing clothes Compare the skulls of Neanderthal Man (left) and Homo Sapiens Sapiens (right)

  9. Paleolithic Cave PaintingsLascaux, France

  10. Stone Age Venus Figures Gagarino Venus Venus of Willendorf, Circa 28,000 B.C. What do these Venus figures tell us about the role of women in prehistoric societies? Venus of Dolni Vestonice

  11. Paleolithic Age: “Old Stone Age” • Began about 400,000 years ago • Nomadic people / hunters-gathers • Division of labor / possible equality of men and women • Made tools and weapons from stone, wood and bone • Use and control of fire • Traded with other groups What was the STONE AGE? • Neolithic Age: “New Stone Age” • Began about 10,000 – 12,000 years ago • Agricultural Revolution / domestication of animals • WHAT CHANGES MIGHT THIS HAVE • HAD ON THE SOCIETY?

  12. The Emergence of Civilization… • Developed agriculture… • People no longer needed to • “hunt” and “gather” food, • so they settled down… • Development of cities • Formal set of laws • Hierarchical system • Ability to create large • buildings • Ability to keep written • records… therefore… Neolithic Village “HISTORY” begins…

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