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The Old Stone Age (The Paleolithic Era)
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The New Stone Age (The Neolithic Era)
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Scientists believe that life began on the
continent of Africa 3.6 million years ago
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Theory of the Evolution of Man
Neanderthal
Cro-Magnon
Modern Man
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Cro-Magnon Man

Cro-Magnon man -early Homo sapiens (the species
to which modern humans belong) that lived about
40,000 years ago.
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The Old Stone Age (The Paleolithic Era)
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• The Old Stone Age or the Paleolithic Era, was a
  period of time that lasted until about 12,000 to
  70,000 years ago.

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How did man survive?

• Man survived by hunting animals and gathering
  roots, berries, leaves, and seeds.

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Hunting

• Old Stone Age (Paleolithic Era) people eventually
  began to hunt in groups.

• Cave Art showing men hunting in groups

• These antlers may have been used
• as a disguise during the hunt.

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Hunted Animals
Mammoth
Wild Boar
Reindeer
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Gathering...
Roots, Berries, and Other Plant Life
Scurvy Grass
Crowberry
Shabby Inkcaps
Wild Cabbage
Morel
Goosebury
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Old Stone Age (Paleolithic Era) Tools

• Man used stone, wood, and bone tools to survive
  during the Old Stone Age.

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Bow found in Denmark
Hand Axe
Flint Blades used to sharpen tools
Bone Harpoon
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Food Processing

• using a flint blade to skin
• an animal

• using a flint blade to butcher
• a carcass

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Cave Art
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Lascaux Cave
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Old Stone Age (Paleolithic Era) Development

• There was another important development the
  discovery of fire

• There was another important development the
  discovery of fire.

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Nomads
Many Stone Age people were Nomads, or people who
had no settled home.
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Old Stone Age (Paleolithic Era)
Shelters
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The Migration of Man
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The New Stone Age (The Neolithic Era)
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The New Stone Age (The Neolithic Era)

• The New Stone Age or The Neolithic Era lasted
  until about 6,000 to 12,000 years ago.

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The New Stone Age (The Neolithic Era)

• During the Neolithic Era, people began to settle
  in one place.

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New Stone Age (Neolithic Era) Settlement
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• Man began to change his diet and eat grains and
  small animals.

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The Development of Agriculture

• Agriculture is the raising of crops and animals.
• The development of agriculture began over a long
  period of time and in more than one place.
• People no longer needed to travel great distances
  to gather food.

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• People learned how to domesticate plants and
  animals.
• To domesticate means to train something to be
  useful to people.
• Early people learned to care for plants such as
  wheat, barley, peas, and lentils.
• The first farmers also domesticated wild goats,
  cattle, and sheep.

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Wheat

• Ancient charred wheat grains are shown in the
  picture above.

• Man domesticated wild wheat.

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Domesticated Corn

• Thousands of years ago, an ear of corn did not
  make much of a meal. (top)
• It took thousands of years of careful breeding
  for ears of corn to reach their present size.
  (bottom)

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New Stone Age (Neolithic Era) Tools

• People still used stone, bone, and wooden tools,
  but some new tools were added by using copper and
  bronze.

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Advanced Tools

• These early farming tools date back to around
  8,000 years ago. The axe, bottom, was used for
  clearing flint sickles, left, were used for
  harvesting cereal crops a flat rock and rounded
  stone, center, were used for grinding flour and
  perforated clay slabs, upper right, were probably
  used to ventilate bread ovens.

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The End