THE STONE AGE
AND EARLY CULTURES
THE FIRST PEOPLE
KEY TERMS
HISTORIANS CALL THE TIME BEFORE
THERE WAS WRITING PREHISTORY.
HOMINID IS AN EARLY ANCESTOR OF
HUMANS.
ANCESTOR IS A RELATIVE WHO LIVED IN
THE PAST.
MORE KEY TERMS
A TOOL IS ANY HANDHELD ODJECT THAT
HAS BEEN MODIFIED TO HELP A PERSON
ACCOMPLISH A TASK.
THE FIRST PART OF THE STONE AGE IS
CALLED THE PALEOLITHIC ERA,OR OLD
STONE AGE.
A SOCIETY IS A COMMUNITY OF PEOPLE
WHO SHARE A COMMON CULTURE.
EVEN MORE KEY
TERMS
HUNTER GATHERERS ARE PEOPLE WHO
HUNT ANIMALS AND GATHER WILD
PLANTS,SEEDS,FRUITS,AND NUTS TO
SURVIVE.
REMAINS OF EARLY
PEOPLE
SCIENTISTS STUDY THE REMAINS OF
EARLY PEOPLE BECAUSE THEY DIDN’T
HAVE BOOKS BACK THEN SO ALL THAT
SCIENTISTS CAN STUDY TODAY IS THE
REMAINS OF THE PEOPLE.
EARLY HOMINIDS
AUSTRALOPITHECUS
HOMO HABILIS
HOMO ERECTUS
HOMO SAPIENS
NAME MEANS SOUTHERN APE
NAME MEANS HANDY MAN
NAME MEANS UPRIGHT MAN
NAME MEANS WISE MAN
APPEARED IN AFRICA ABOUT
4-5 MILLION YEARS AGO
APPEARED IN AFRICA ABOUT
2.4 MILLION YEARS AGO
APPEARED IN AFRICA ABOUT21.5 MILLION YEARS AGO
APPEARED IN AFRICA ABOUT
200,000 YEARS AGO
STOOD UPRIGHT AND WALKED
ON TWO LEGS
USED EARLY STONE TOOLS
FOR CHOPPING AND
SCRAPING
USED EARLY TOOLS LIKE THE
HAND AX
MIGRATED AROUND THE
WORLD
LEARNED TO CONTROL FIRE
LEARNED TO CREATE FIRE
AND USE A WIDE VARIETY OF
TOOLS
MIGRATED OUT OF AFRICA TO
ASIA AND EUROPE
DEVELOPED LANGUAGE
BRAIN WAS ABOUT ONE-THIRD
THE SIZE OF MODERN
HUMANS
BRAIN WAS ABOUT HALF THE
SIZE OF MODERN HUMANS
TOOLS
ONE OF THE TOOLS THAT EARLY PEOPLE
USED WERE HAND AXES TO BREAK TREE
LIMBS,TO DIG,AND TO CUT ANIMAL HIDES.
ANOTHER TOOL WAS A SPEAR THAT THEY
USED FOR HUNTING.
THEY ALSO USED A STONE CHOPPER
FOR SCRAPPING AND CHOPPING.
HUNTER GATHERERS
HUNTER GATHERERS ARE PEOPLE WHO
HUNT ANIMALS AND GATHER BERRIES.
HUNTER GATHERER
PICTURE
LANGUAGE
THE DEVELOPMENT OF LANGUAGE WAS
SO IMPORTANT BECAUSE IT WAS EASIER
FOR PEOPLE TO TALK TO EACH OTHER.
ART AND RELIGION WAS IMPORTANT
BECAUSE THEY COULD DRAW WHAT
THEY DID.
EARLY PEOPLE
MIGRATION
KEY TERMS
MIGRATE-TO MOVE
THESE FREEZING TIMES ARE CALLED THE
ICE AGES
A LAND BRIDGE IS A STRIP OF LAND
CONNECTING TWO CONTINENTS
MESOLITHIC ERA,OR THE MIDDLE STONE
AGE
WHAT WAS THE ICE
AGE
THE ICE AGE WAS A PERIOD OF
FREEZING WEATHER.THE ICE AGE
IMPACTED ON THE EARLY HUMANS
BECAUSE IT WAS COLDER FOR THE
PEOPLE AND HARDER FOR THE PEOPLE
TO SURVIVE.
SETTLING IN NEW
LANDS
PEOPLE GOT FROM ASIA TO NORTH
AMERICA BY A LAND BRIDGE SOME
SCHOLARS BELIVE.
PICTURE OF
MIGRATION MAP
ADAPTING TO NEW
ENVIROMENTS
PEOPLE HAD TO ADAPT TO THEIR
ENVIROMENTS TO STAY ALIVE
BEGINNING OF
AGRICULTURE
KEY TERMS
NEOLITHIC ERA OR NEW STONE AGE
THE PROCESS OF CHANGING PLANTS OR
ANIMALS TO MAKE THEM MORE USEFUL
TO HUMANS IS CALLED DOMESTICATION
AGRICULTURE OR FARMING
MEGALITHS ARE HUGE STONES USED AS
MONUMENTS
THE FIRST FARMERS
THE KINDS OF TOOLS THAT THEY USED IN
THE NEOLITHIC ERA WERE POLISHED
STONES THAT THEY MADE IN TO SAWS
AND DRILLS.
HISTORIANS CALL THE SHIFT FROM FOOD
GATHERING TO FOOD PRODUCING THE
NEOLITHIC REVOLUTION.
THE PROCESS OF CHANGING PLANTS OR
ANIMALS TO MAKE THEM MORE USEFUL
TO HUMANS IS CALLED DOMESTICATION.
AGRICULTURE
AGRICULTURE CHANGED HUMAN
SOCIETY FOREVER BECAUSE PEOPLE
COULD MAKE THEIR OWN FOOD.