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Paleolithic V Neolithic

The document provides information about the Paleolithic and Neolithic ages by comparing key factors between the two periods. [1] The Paleolithic age (2.3 million years ago - 8,000 BC) was characterized by hunter-gatherer societies who lived in temporary camps and used stone tools, while the Neolithic age (8,000 BC onward) saw the rise of permanent farming villages with houses of stone/mud/wood. [2] Paleolithic peoples hunted and gathered food nomadically, whereas Neolithic populations farmed and herded domesticated plants and animals. [3] Technology advanced from basic stone tools to pottery, metalworking, weaving during the Neolithic era.

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Paleolithic V Neolithic

The document provides information about the Paleolithic and Neolithic ages by comparing key factors between the two periods. [1] The Paleolithic age (2.3 million years ago - 8,000 BC) was characterized by hunter-gatherer societies who lived in temporary camps and used stone tools, while the Neolithic age (8,000 BC onward) saw the rise of permanent farming villages with houses of stone/mud/wood. [2] Paleolithic peoples hunted and gathered food nomadically, whereas Neolithic populations farmed and herded domesticated plants and animals. [3] Technology advanced from basic stone tools to pottery, metalworking, weaving during the Neolithic era.

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What does this have to do

with the “Paleolithic” and


“Neolithic” ages
Paleolithic v/s Neolithic
Prehistory Timeline

What
about
these??
Please Create and Complete This Chart in
Your Notebook

Factors of: Paleolithic Neolithic

Definition

Housing

Food/Living

Technology

Social
Organization
Definitions:

Paleolithic (Old Stone Age) The


first age in which people lived (c
2.3 million years ago – c.8,000 bc)
when they mostly hunted and
gathered their food.

Early Man Video Clip


Neolithic (New Stone Age)
The time period starting c.
8,000 bc when humans started
to settle into farming villages
and started producing their
own food.
4 factors used to tell them apart:

1)Housing

2)Means of Living (How they gather food)

3)Technology

4)Social Organization
Housing A House From Jarmo

Paleolithic: Neolithic:
Campsites, Tents, Houses constructed of
Caves and Huts stone, mud, or wood.
Temporary and More permanent
Mobile
Means of Living (How they get food)
Paleolithic: Neolithic:
Hunting and Farming and herding
gathering
Start of specialized
Nomadic (moved workers
with the food)
Stone Age Tool Interactive
Technology:
Paleolithic:
Neolithic:
Hunting and gathering
tools: Farming tools:
Baskets, skins, bone Pottery, metal work,
and stone tools spinning/weaving, etc
Social organization
Paleolithic: Neolithic:
Small Nomadic Villages and small
groups (25-40) cities.
Society of equals, Private property
sharing resources
Now that you see the difference between both the
Paleolithic peoples and the Neolithic peoples lets
do and overview of how these groups developed
to become a civilization that encompasses the
five traits we discussed earlier.

Farmers/Herders
Paleolithic
domesticate
hunters and plants and
gathers animals and
settle in one
area.
Specialized
Farmers workers arise
produce a because people
Surplus of Food have enough food
and the to start doing
population rises other types of
work
People start to
produce more
of everything
Trade
and want items
develops
that they don’t
make
themselves
Writing Exchange of
develops to ideas and
record trade culture.
transactions Civilizations
start to borrow
and exchange
ideas…
civilizations
grow and
adapt.
Flowchart the growth of civilizations
it should look similar to:
Paleolithic Hunt/Gather  Neolithic Farm/Herd
Do Hunters/Gatherers still exist?

Exchange of
Domesticate
Ideas and
plants/animals
Culture

Writing –
Settle in one area
Recording Trade

QUIA GAME - PALEOLITHIC OR NEOLITHIC?


Development of
Surplus Food
Trade

Excess Production
Population Increase
Desire for Other Goods

Specialized Workforce
Great Neolithic Stone Monuments
Which of these ancient monuments was built first?
Stonehenge in England Newgrange tomb in Ireland
(3000 B.C. to 1600 B.C.) (3200 B.C.)

Pyramids of Egypt
(2575 B.C. to 2465 B.C.)
Please Create and Complete This Chart in
Your Notebook

Factors of: Paleolithic Neolithic


The first age in which people lived (c 2.3 The time period starting c. 8,000 bc when
Definition million years ago – c.8,000 bc) when they
mostly hunted and gathered their food.
humans started to settle into farming
villages and started producing their own
food.

Campsites, Tents, Caves and Huts Houses constructed of stone, mud, or


Housing Temporary and Mobile wood. More permanent

Hunting and gathering Farming and herding


Food/Living Nomadic (moved with the food) Start of specialized workers

Hunting and gathering tools: Farming tools:


Technology Baskets, skins, bone and stone tools Pottery, metal work, spinning/weaving, etc

Small Nomadic groups (25-40) Villages and small cities.


Social Society of equals, sharing resources Private property

Organization
Sites to Explore
• Tour Lascaux Cave

• Stone Age Cave Paintings from Lascaux France

• Visit Chauvet Cave

• The Iceman's Last Meal

• Buffalo Eddy - Washington and Idaho

• "We're Nomadic" from Flocabulary

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