Transcript Three Stone Ages

Computer Hardware - Which One?
This One
This One
Computer Hardware - Which One?
If this is computer
hardware, what do we
call these? (Besides
CD-ROMS)
Computer Hardware - Which One?
If this is computer
hardware, what do we
call these? (Besides
CD-ROMS)
Software
Computer Hardware - Software - what
do these words have in common?
Hardware
Software
Both words have the suffix “ware”, which means something that’s a
useful tool. We use similar words to describe similar things, and
then make words distinctive by adding a word to show what’s
different. Why does one word use the prefix “hard” and the other
use the prefix “soft”? Sometimes we have to even invent new words
for things that didn’t previously exist!
In our study of Ancient Civilizations, we start
with the names of the First Three Stone Ages.
_____lithic
Paleo
_____lithic
Meso
____lithic
Neo
Notice that they all have the last root word “lithic” in common.
What does lithic mean? Have you ever heard of a lithium battery?
Have you ever heard of a
monolith? It comes from the
Greek word mono, which
means single, and lithos,
meaning stone. Click to see
Hammurabi’s monolith from
1700 BC.
Three Stone Ages
_____
Paleo lithic
Meso
______lithic
____or
____ Age _______
Old Ancient Stone
Middle Stone Age
The age in human
culture characterized
by the use of rough
or chipped
______ stone tools.
The age in human culture
characterized by moving
from a food-gathering
society to a food-production
society. Tools in this age
often had “barbs” or hooks,
or i____________
nterchangeable blades.
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___lithic
Neo
_____Stone
Age
New
The age in human
culture characterized
by the use of stone
tools used to farm,
p______,
ottery weaving
cloth, and baskets.
Three Stone Ages
Paleolithic Age
25 million to 40,000 years ago
Mesolithic Age
40,000 to 8,000 BC
Neolithic Age
8,000 to 3,500 BC
Students start
taking notes
on handout save for
future tests!
Paleolithic
Old or Ancient
Stone Age
Mesolithic
Meso (Middle) Stone
Age
Neolithic
New StoneAge
2.5 million years ago
40,000 BC-8,000 BC
Ice Age begins to thaw out
8,000 BC-3,500 BC
Ice Age thawed out
Ice Age
People lived on caves
People live in
caves
People live in and draw in
caves
People build mud brick shelters
or tent s made of poles, wrapped
with mat t in g or animal skins
Some people begin to move out
of caves
HOMES
Qu ic k T i m e™ a n d a
Grap h i c s d e c o mp re s so r
a re n e e d ed t o s e e th i s p ic tu re.
TOOLS
rough o r chipped
stone tools
"barbs" or hooks
Arrows
Pottery
Interchangeab le blades
Stone farming tools
Hunters and g atherers
Cloth
Baskets
Paleolithic
Wooley
Mammoth
Wooly Mammoths
A
N
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M
A
L
S
Mesolithic
Wooley
Mammoths and SaberWooly Mammoths
Toothed t igers dying out
Saber-toothedtiger
tigers
aber-toothed
Some wolves tamed
Some sheep kept in pens
Neolithic
Sheep tamed (domesticated),
Sheep and goats tamed
used for wool and milk
(domesticated), used for wool,
meat, and milk
Dogs help in hunt ing
No more
more Wooley
wooly mammoths
or or
No
Mammoths
saber-toothed tigers
Saber-toothed
tigers
Hand out cards and have students put in the correct
locations on the whiteboarad with scotch tape.