Transcript Lesson 2: Early Farmers

Lesson 2: Early Farmers
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Objective:
• To learn about domestication and how
farming changed the way of life for the
Stone Age people.
Vocabulary
Domesticate
The way humans produce the items they need
Surplus
Method of estimating the age of something
after it has died.
Harvest
To Tame
Agriculture
To Gather
Site where archaeologist uncover artifacts
Technology
Raising of plants and animals for human use
Nomad
Carbon dating
Excavation site
Person who travels from place to place, without
permanent home
Having extra or an abundance of something
Excavation Site
Harvest
Nomad
Surplus
Domesticate
Stone Age
Old Stone Age
• Lasted 3,490,000 Years
• Very Little Progress Made
Technology slow in Old Stone Age
Technology Today?
Old Stone Age Tools
Then…….
and Now….
20 years
3,490,000 Years
New Stone Age
What Caused the Transition from Old Stone
Age to New Stone Age?
Ended 5,000 years ago b/c of Metal Working
New Stone Age Begins:
• Advances in Stone working
• Polished Rock tools
• Glaciers gone—Wild plants and food crops
• Domesticated animals and Plants
– Continues today
Early Farming: 1st Plants
• 1st Plants: wheat,
rice, barley (grains)
First Animals to be
Domesticated
Domestication of Animals
• 10,000 years ago Dogs, goats, cattle,
sheep domesticated.
• Depend on Humans for survival; tame
VS.
Useful Creatures
Horses
Donkeys
Camels
Transportation for Nomads
Transportation of Food
Honey
Wax for candles
Venom for medicine
Change in lifestyle
• Animals produce milk and wool—Sell items
• Animals plow fields—sell the surplus
Sell for What?
Skara Brae
Skara Brae
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50 people
Scotland
Raised sheep and cattle
Farmed
Led To
Social Division
Traded
Surplus