prehistory- period before writing was invented. define pre-history
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Those who excavate or dig in areas where people live, finding artifacts and analyze them coming up with some conclusion about those people and how they lived.TRANSCRIPT
Discovering Pre-history
Prehistory- period before writing
was invented.
DefinePre-History
Those who excavate or dig in areas where people live, finding artifacts and analyze them coming up with some conclusion about those people and how they lived.
Archaeologist
Paleolithic age-
Old Stone Age
Facts about the Paleolithic age-• Artifacts have been found in East
Africa, China, Southeast Asia, Europe, Middle East and America.
• They lived by fishing, hunting and gathering wild plants.
• They moved in search
of food- **Nomads** they had no permanent shelters..
The Ice Age
• Four ice ages during this period. • Sheets of ice called glaciers covered much
of Northern America, Europe, and parts of Asia.
• At the end of the ice age, dramatic local climates changed around the world. What was once a lush green vegetation was now a desert. Plants were reorganized, animals were reorganized and people moved to adapt to the climate.
Facts about Ice Age
How did anything survive?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E1Mgd3-3W3s&feature=related
National Geographic - Beginning Of An
Ice Age http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o_D2XE_Plx
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How did it end?
Neolithic
New stone age
• People now began to farm and not hunt and gather food so much.
• Domesticated animals (tamed animals) Dogs, sheep, goats.
• Women farmed, men hunted. • Agriculture developed. (Anthropologist
believe it began in the Middle East and Africa.)
In this area they grew: Wheat, Barley and oats.
In Asia they grew: Rice and root crops (yams).
Africa
Asia
• Small Villages began, property was now important.
• Technology began with the development of farms.
• New farming tools and skills were established.
• Weaving was invented for making cloth.
Life in the Neolithichttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y4F8XH2BeHE&feature=related
• The wheel replaced the wooden sled which made transportation easier.
• Animals were used in farming.
• Copper was the first metal used for weapons and tools.
• Later a harder metal, Bronze was used. Combing Tin and
Copper to make bronze.
• As villages were established, Religion was too.
(Had to have an explanation for natural happenings. ) • Early man believed in
Polytheism.
Religion
Many cave paintings are believed to not be just designs or decoration but
a religious ritual to insure a good hunt
See page 11 in your textbookThis painting is believed to be 15,000
years old. Subtle shading and earth tone.
Tree ofLife
Neolithic part Ihttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GEm6LWh8D_s&feature=related
Neolithic part IIhttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K1xk81bwIGQ&feature=related
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