prehistory what are we doing? we are studying the first developments of humankind why are we doing...
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Prehistory
What are we doing? We are studying the first developments of humankind
Why are we doing it? It is important to understand the foundations of communication and human life to understand how the world got to the way it is today
Learning Targets
Define Prehistory and the time span it covers
Analyze how the use of simple tools advanced humankind beyond all other mammals
Interpret early forms of communication
Understand the early developments that lead to civilization
What is Prehistory?
What do you consider history?Why do you call it history?
How do you know about it?
Historical Record
Our “historical record” starts when human beings began using language and started writing things down
Sooooo…..
Prehistory is = The period of time between the dawn of man and the first known uses of written communication
The Prehistoric period
Major accomplishmentsTool manufacture and use
Communication• Verbal
• Written?
Domestication of animals• And plants?
Finally: agriculture• The “First Wave”
The Paleolithic period
“old stone age”
c. 500,000 BCE - c. 6000 BCE
Basic featuresHunting and gathering
Remarkable art (and religion?)
Simple tools of chipped stone
Simple shelters
Fire• c. 150,000 BCE?
Language
The Neolithic period
Began in Middle East around 6000 BCEto c. 3700 BCE
Basic featuresFood productionPolished stone tools • and weapons?
More settled, less nomadic lifestyles“permanent” villagesPopulation increasesDevelopment of a more complex (and satisfying?) social order
Timeline Events
Harnessing the power of fire
The first use of stone tools
Building of simple shelters
The use of complex tools
Language
The first “settled” communities
Building of permanent shelters
Domesticated animals
Domesticated plants
Agriculture
Human evolution
Homo erectus
The mysterious Neanderthal
The subject of one of prehistory’s most intriguing questions
Cromagnon
First “man” who really resembles us
Lived at the same time as Neanderthal
The peripatetic (nomadic) lifec
Homo faber
B.
C.
Early stone toolsA. Homo habilis
B. Homo erectus
C. Neanderthal
A.
Eating
What was the more productive?
The hunter?
Or the gatherer?
Lets find out for ourselves!
Phase 1:
Read: Hunter-Gathers to Farmers
Phase 2:
Play “Hunter or Gatherer?”
Phase 3:
Watch Stone Age
Extraordinary art!
Cave art (cont.)
What general theme is evident here?
Cave artists
Paleolithic religion?
Farming
Agricultural Revolution
Lets read about the types of crops and animals that w were farmed!
Settling down
Prerequisite to civilization
Jericho
Jordan River valley
c. 8000 BCE
Catal Hüyük
Modern Turkey
c. 6500 BCE
Catal Hüyük (cont.)
Jig-Saw
Comparing Early Farming Civilizations
The first writing?
Neolithic religious life
Webquest