THE NEOLITHIC REVOLUTION

TIMELINE REVIEW Paleolithic Era (Old Stone Age) Mesolithic Era (Middle Stone Age) Neolithic Era (New Stone Age) Copper, Bronze, Iron Ages

SO WHAT HAPPENED BETWEEN 8,000 BCE AND 6,000 BCE?

People have started populating the earth by spreading to various continents What happens when they stop moving?

NEOLITHIC ERA People started living in permanent

villages Written language began 10,000 BCE – most people lived by

hunting and gathering 8,000 BCE – most people were farmers or herders (trade as well)

HOW CAN PEOPLE SURVIVE WITHOUT MOVING AROUND?

Neolithic Revolution (New Stone Age) Agriculture Begins (farming)

Growing food Domestication of Animals

Taming goats, sheep, pigs, cattle

DOES EVERYONE HAVE THE SAME JOB?

Specialization Division of Labor

Farming Crafts Trade

OTHER ADVANCEMENTS Advanced Tools (Polishing)

Moving from hand-held axes to well shaped blades

Blades made of stone and antlers Barbed harpoons Become sophisticated and aesthetic

Making baskets and bowls (pottery) Weaving Skills (cloth for clothing

instead of animal skins)

CONSEQUENCES OF THE NEOLITHIC REVOLUTION

Do NOW: Read In your notes answer the questions at

the end of the reading and be ready to discuss.

Changes Settlements need housing and storage of

food. Excess food led to trade and specialization Relationships between men and women

change.

HUNTER-GATHERER VS. FARMER Caves, Animal

Skin Huts Temporary

800 – 1000 hours a year for food per adult

Stone, Mud, Wood Permanent

1000 to 1300 hours a year for food per adult harder work physically for food production different types of work – pottery, architecture, textiles

HUNTER-GATHERER VS. FARMER

1 square kilometer feeds nine people in best locations

A great deal of variety and more meat products than farming

Rough rock

1 square kilometer feeds 200 to 300 people

Limited mostly to domesticated animals and crops – less nutritional variety

Polished stone

HUNTER-GATHERER VS. FARMER

WHAT’S NEXT? The Bronze Age

Get out your books and do a quick read. pg 30. Take quick notes and add them to your

notes from today. You have 10 minutes.

WHAT IS IT? A civilization is a complex culture in which

large groups share common culture/elements.

6 main types of elements. Cities Government Religion Social structure Writing art

REMINDERS Chapter 1, section 2 notes are due on

Monday, Sept. 10th.