Paleolithic - Neolithic

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Paleolithic - Neolithic

• Paleolithic or Old Stone Age dates from the first
  stone tool makers (approx. 2 million BCE) to
  about 10,000 BCE.
• Strong archeological evidence indicates the first
  humans came from Africa
• This evidence was provided by Mary and Louis
  Leaky Donald Johanson

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• The oldest human footprints in the world were
  unearthed at Laetoli, near Olduvai Gorge, in
  Tanzinia. These footprints led Owen Lovejoy to
  conclude that even these early hominids walked
  with an upright, striding gait just as modern
  humans do.

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• Lucy - is one of the oldest and most complete
  skeletons of human ancestry, which was discovered
  by Don Johanson in Ethiopia's Afar Triangle.

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• Otzi, the oldest mummy ever unearthed, was found
  in the Italian Alps in 1991. Scientists were
  thrilled to find he had remained frozen, and
  almost perfectly preserved, for thousands of
  years.

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Otzi..The Ice Man

• He wore clothing made from leather and grasses
  and carried a copper axe, a bow and arrows.
  Speculation immediately began about who he was
  and why he died where he did, but it was hard to
  do too much checking without damaging his
  body.Later, an arrowhead was found in his left
  shoulder, suggesting Otzi did not simply freeze
  to death while climbing the high mountains, but
  was shot by a fellow hunter. After studying the
  corpse's intestines, Italian researcher Professor
  Franco Rollo, an archaeologist at the Universita
  di Camerino in Italy concluded last year that the
  iceman's final meals consisted of venison and
  ibex meat.

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Characteristics of Paleolithic Period

• The people were hunters and gatherers
• They lived in small groups of about 20-30 people
• Sexual division of labor
• Nomadic people who followed game and ripening
  fruit
• Developed simple tools from stone, bone or wood
• Invented clothing
• Cave paintings and religious rituals

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Neolithic Period

• Approx. 10,000 years ago Hunter and Gatherers
  began to farm
• Life became more sedentary and permanent villages
  developed
• Seed planting and animal domestication
• Neolithic people became food producers
• Farming..FarmingFarming.
• ___________ led to growth in population

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Out of Africa
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Characteristics ofNeolithic Period

• Councils of elders began making decisions
• Individuals accumulated more personal property
• Some type of calendar invented
• Animals used in field work
• These innovations led to the emergence of
  civilizations

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Skara BraeAn early Neolithic village
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