From Hunter-Gatherers to Farming

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From Hunter-Gatherers to Farming

• The most important advancement in human history?

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Neolithic Revolution Vocab Paleolithic Neolithi
c Nomad  Surplus Environment Domesticate Agricultu
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Early Farming Settlement of the Fertile Crescent
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Paleolithic People Hunter-Gatherers
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Neolithic People Farming and Agriculture
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What similarities and differences do you notice?
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Paleolithic People Paleolithic"old stone
age"   -People hunted animals and gathered nuts,
berries, and other plants. -They moved around
(nomads) -Lived much of their lives out in the
open -Little to no surplus of food -population
was small
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Neolithic People Neolithic"new stone age" -The
ability to grow food allowed people to settle
down -They built permanent houses and
communities -A surplus of food allowed them to
support more people for a longer period of time. 
Some people started doing different jobs now that
there was enough food. -People domesticated
animals to eat and help to raise the crops -Some
people began to work with metal toward the end of
the Neolithic period
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Domestication of Plant and Animals

• Animals http//archaeology.about.com/od/dterms/a/
  domestication.htm
• Plants http//archaeology.about.com/od/domestica
  tions/a/plant_domestic.htm

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Catal Hoyuk
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• Describe Catal Hoyuk
• 1. All buildings made from earth and clay. Mud
  bricks
• 2. Buildings together and closed in.
• No streets. Travelled on rooftops. 1000 homes.
• Covered 32 acres. Population 5000-6000
• Major obsidian trade center
• Wove cloth basket and fashioned leather
• Traded on their roofs
• Large packed together houses made of mud brick
• Ladders used to move from one house to another
• Many windows used for light
• 11. Modern day Turkey

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• Daily life in a Neolithic town
• 1. If they had a valued item, they were more
  powerful
• 2. Grew peas. Gathered crabapples, juniper
  berries and nuts
• Everyone had a job to do.
• Farming and other jobs
• The houses were the same size. Kitchens and
  living quarters
• They traded
• Practiced religion and made art
• Citizens could break bones climbing up and down
  ladders
• Domesticated animals
• Hunted deer bear and wolves
• Made tools, pottery.

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• A Farming Economy
• Self-sufficient able to provide for ones self
  without help from others
• They produced ample grain and cattle
• They had rich soil and close water sources
• They left town to tend the fields
• Plenty of mud for bricks
• They had a good climate for growing crops
• Fertile soil
• Seed planting and tending to the fields

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• Catal Hoyuk Crafts
• They made items from obsidian
• Made lots of small things like fish hooks, small
  objects, beads, and hairpins etc
• They made bowls and boxes with lids from wood
• Basket and leather pouches
• Pottery, ceremonial daggers, and sculpted bull
  heads
• Obsidian and rock weapons
• Made mirror and ammunition

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• Trade in the Neolithic world
• Traded tools, food, turquoise, copper, obsidian,
  crafts, pottery
• 2. Transported materials on domesticated animals
  like cattle
• They travelled 120 miles to get the obsidian
• Obsidian from Catal Hoyuk was discovered 620
  miles away in Jericho.
• They traded anything of value
• Traded for things that couldnt make or get