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TOOLS AND WEAPONS
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WHAT IS PREHISTORY?
Prehistory is the time before
there were written records.
Creation of Earth, 4.5 billion years ago
“Age of Fish”, 600 million years ago
“Age of Reptiles”,
220 million years ago
Early Man, 65 million years ago
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Australopithecus
1-5 million years ago
Earliest forms of HOMINDS:
upright, bipedal primate mammals
More like apes than humans
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Homo Habilis: “Handy Man”
First human species
about 2 million years ago
•30% larger brain than
Australopithecus
•Able to walk upright
•Use of tools
What is the importance of being
able to walk upright?
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Homo Erectus 400,000-2 million years ago
•50% larger brain that homo habilis
•Used tools
•First species to use & control fire
•NOMADIC people
•Hunters-gatherers
•Originated in Africa; migrated to
Europe & Asia
Changes in Homo Erectus
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Homo Sapiens
•Earliest form of modern man
•Lived 300,000 – 400,000 years ago
•Found throughout Africa, Asia
and Europe
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Neanderthal Man
(Homo Sapiens)
What common
misconceptions
exist about
Neanderthal
Man?
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Homo Sapiens Sapiens:
Modern Human Beings
130,000 years ago - present
Homo sapiens sapiens
arrived during the
Paleolithic Age
(Old Stone Age)
Carving of human head, 26,000 years old
•Improved tools & weapons
•Cave Art
•Venus figurines
•Needles for sewing clothes
Compare the skulls of Neanderthal Man (left)
and Homo Sapiens Sapiens (right)
What is a tool?
• A tool is a device or a piece of equipment
that typically provides a mechanical
advantage in accomplishing a task or
enables the accomplishment of a task not
otherwise possible. The most basic tools
are simple machines. When particularly
intended for domestic use, a tool is often
called a utensil.
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The Stone Age
• The first tool-makers!
• This period of time is called the Stone
Age because these very early men
created tools from stone. The Stone
Age ran from about 2 million years ago to
about 10,000 years ago.
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200,000 years later…
Man learns to
make FIRE!!!
They were probably a bit
startled when they saw what
they had created, little knowing
that the invention of fire would
change life dramatically!
DISCUSS: How do you think
the ability to make fire
changed life?
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The Bronze Age
• The Stone Age developed into the Bronze Age
after radical changes in agricultural technology which
included:
– development of agriculture (people began to grow crops),
– animal domestication (people began to raise animals),
– and the adoption of permanent settlements (people began to stay in
one area).
• During this period in the development of technology is
when metals were first used regularly in the manufacture
of tools and weapons.
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Bronze Age Tools
Can you guess which tools were used for
what?
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The Iron Age
• The Iron Age involved the adoption of iron
smelting technology. It generally replaced
bronze, and made it possible to produce tools
which were stronger and cheaper to make than
bronze equivalents. In many Eurasian cultures,
the Iron Age was the last major step before the
development of written language. Also
developed during the Iron Age was a coin
system.
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Iron Age Tools
Can you guess which tools were used for what?
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Iron Age
• Iron Age, marks the period of development of
Technology, when the working of iron came
into general use, replacing bronze as the basic
material for implements and weapons.
• It is the last stage of the archaelogical
sequence known as the three-age system
(Stone Age, Bronze Age, & Iron Age).
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Terms and Time Periods
Paleolithic Age = Old Stone Age = 2 million years - 10,000 years ago
Paleo = Old, Lithic = Stone.
Beginnings of tool-making to beginnings of farming.
Hunting, gathering, and fishing the universal way of life.
Late Paleolithic = 200,000 - 10,000 years ago
Advances toward greater cultural complexity, which began
to appear when Homo sapiens still lived only in Africa.
More and better tools, symbolic thought and expression.
Hunting, gathering, and fishing continue but settlements
become bigger in some places.
Neolithic Age = 10,000 - 4,000 years ago
Neo = New, Lithic = Stone.
More complex stone tools.
Early era of farming to beginnings of city-based societies.
Humans in many parts of the world continue to gather and
hunt.
NeoLate
Paleolithic lithic
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