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Pre-History and The Beginnings of Civilization

Pre-History and The Beginnings of Civilization. What is Pre-History? The time before people kept records (writing). Paleolithic - Neolithic. Paleolithic or Old Stone Age dates from the first stone tool makers (approx. 2 million BCE) to about 10,000 BCE. Mesolithic or Middle Stone Age

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Pre-History and The Beginnings of Civilization

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  1. Pre-History andThe Beginnings of Civilization • What is Pre-History? • The time before people kept records (writing)

  2. Paleolithic - Neolithic • Paleolithic or Old Stone Age dates from the first stone tool makers (approx. 2 million BCE) to about 10,000 BCE. • Mesolithic or Middle Stone Age • Neolithic or _____ Stone Age New

  3. Early Humans • Strong archeological evidence indicates the first humans came from Africa • This evidence was provided by Mary and Louis Leaky & Donald Johanson

  4. 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.

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

  6. 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. http://www.abc.net.au/science/news/ancient/AncientRepublish_924421.htm

  7. 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. http://www.abc.net.au/science/news/ancient/AncientRepublish_924421.htm

  8. 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

  9. In a handful of pierced seashells found in a South African cave, scientists believe that they have discovered the world’s oldest known jewelry and the earliest reliabile evidence of creative symbolic thought at work. The 41 tiny shells, unearthed at Blombos Cave, were strung as beads more than 75,00 years ago, making them at least 30,000 years older than any other reliably dated personal ornaments…. http://www.krsh.com/morningshow/blindedarchive/JewelryEverAppropriate.htm

  10. 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…..Farming……Farming…. • ___________ led to growth in population

  11. Out of Africa

  12. 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

  13. Skara BraeAn early Neolithic village

  14. Stonehenge http://www.sacred-destinations.com/england/stonehenge

  15. Stonehenge • Archaeological evidence suggests that Stonehenge built in 4 stages beginning around 3100BC and continued until around 1100BC. • Stage 1= circular embankment, 'Heel Stone', wooden poles • Stage 2= rows of bluestones at the centre • Stage 3= doorways and trilithons. • Stage 4= bluestones reset and roadway extended. http://ukirishhistory.suite101.com/article.cfm/stonehenge#ixzz0PPPYPUCk

  16. Stonehenge Stonehenge site around 2000 BC. The surviving stones are shown as shaded rectangles. http://www.sacred-destinations.com/england/stonehenge

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