Neolithic Age: Taking Control of Nature

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Neolithic Age Taking Control of Nature
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New Stone Age

• Southwest Asia
• 8000 3000 BCE
• Specialized tools
• Domestication of Plants and Animals

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Domesticated Goat
Wild Goat
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Development of Agriculture

• Warming trend ended the Ice age in 10,000 BCE
• People began to farm
• Grains began to spread throughout Southwest Asia
• Domestication selective growing or breeding of
  plants and animals to make them more useful to
  humans.

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How do you suspect agriculture changed society?
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Case Study 1 Otzi the Iceman
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Who is this Guy? Why is he important?

• Items
• Tool kit
• Six-foot longbow
• Deerskin case with 14 arrows
• Small dagger
• Copper ax
• Medicine bag

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What have we learned from Otzi?

• Over 5,000 years ago
• Killed by an arrow to the back
• Knowledge of medicine
• Knowledge of acupuncture
• Semi-nomadic
• types of technology

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Cast Study 2 Çatal Höyük
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Çatal Höyük

• Turkish meaning, fork mound
• Large and well preserved Neolithic settlement
• 7500 to 5700 BCE

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Homes

• Domestic buildings
• No public buildings
• Population 5,000 to 8,000
• honeycomb-like maze no streets or paths
• Holes in the ceilings ladders inside and out
• Plastered interior walls
• Figurines

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Culture Daily Life

• Egalitarian no social class
• Little distinction between genders
• Wheat and barley
• sheep and goats

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So, what does this all mean?