Paleolithic and Neolithic Ages

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Paleolithic and Neolithic Ages
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Old Stone Age

• Paleolithic age lasted from 2 million B.C. E. to
  10,000 B.C.E.
• Evidence of the first Human ancestors was found
  in Tanzania and Ethiopia.
• In 1974 anthropologists found parts of a hominid
  skeleton they named Lucy.

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Survivors

• The earliest people were hunters and gatherers
• They survived by following their prey and did not
  stay in one place too long.
• As such they were nomadic and traveled in groups
  of 20-30.

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Life in the Stone Age

• The earliest humans
• used simple tools made out of stone,
• bone or wood
• learned to control fire
• developed spoken languages
• buried their dead
• believed that the world was full of
• spirits and these spirits were found
• in animals, the elements and nature

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Cave Paintings, France and Spain
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Neolithic Revolution

• The Neolithic revolution was very important
  because people stopped hunting and gathering and
  started farming.
• It began in the East in Mesopotamia in the
  Fertile Crescent
• Why did it happen?
• Temperatures rose creating a warmer climate and
  large animals started to disappear

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Thrivers

• People in the Neolithic age rounded up animals
  and penned them on grasslands or in enclosures.
• This is called domestication.
• If people arent moving from place to place what
  could change besides food source?

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Results

• The population grew
• People in a village were given different jobs to
  do
• Trade was set-up between villages due to a
  surplus in food
• Councils were organized to govern the village
• Social classes formed as some people had more
  money than others.
• New technology

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Pagan sites in England
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