Transcript Early Human Lecture Notes

Early Human
Lecture Notes
Tools to Discover
► Historians
tell us that history began about
5,500 years ago when people began to
write
► What we know about the earlier people
comes from things they left behind
► Archaeologists dig up and study artifacts
► The early period of human history is called
the Stone Age
 Why is it called this?
Who were the Hunter-Gatherers?
► During
the Stone Age, early Paleolithic
people spent most of their time using
stones to make weapons.
 These people were always on the move and
were called nomads
 Roles of Paleolithic women = stayed close to
home, looked after children, searched nearby
woods for food like berries and fruit
 Roles of Paleolithic men = hunted animals, and
made tools for the kill
Adapting to the Environment
► Paleolithic
people made a life-changing
discovery when they learned to tame fire.
► List 4 uses/benefits of fire
► 1.
For heat
► 2. For Food
► 3. For light
► 4. Scare predators
What were the Ice Ages?
► Fire
was a key to survival of Paleolithic
people during the Ice Ages.
► Early humans had to do a few things to
adapt to the conditions such as change their
diet, build sturdier shelters, and use animal
furs to make warm clothing
Language, Art, and Religion
► Spoken
language made it far easier for
people to work together and to pass on
knowledge
► Early people also expressed themselves
through art, which was put on cave walls
Invention of Tools
► Paleolithic
people were the first to use
technology - tools and methods to help
humans perform tasks
► List a few of the earliest forms of
technology in the blank space provided
Neolithic Times
► After
the last Ice Age ended people began
to domesticate or tame animals.
 How did the people use animals
► People
also learned how to grow grains,
which allowed people to stay in one place.
► Farming replaced hunting and gathering
► This change marked the beginning of the
Neolithic Age
Benefits of a settled life
► What
made it possible for people to begin
specializing?