Paleolithic and Neolithic Man
Paleolithic and Neolithic Man
World History:
Paleolithic Man: (90% of humanity is the lower paleolithic)
• • Old stone age: 1.5 million(8,000 BC
• • Change extremely slow, extremely…
• • Change began to occur as these people began to take notice of the world around them.
• • First stone tools
• • Biface, pear shaped scraping tool, looks lie a teardrop
• • Remains of humans have been found in Java as old as 775, 000 years old
• • Homo (human) Erectus (upright)(1.5 million BC(300,000 years ago
• • Tools made chipped from stone, flint
• • One design found around the globe, meaning….transmission of design or knowledge.
• • 500,000 years ago Homo Erectus developed the ability to control fire
• • Expanded diet
• • Housing
• • Protection
• • Location
• • Religion
• • Health
• • Almost all early humans were migratory farmers, their housing and their life remnants suggest this.
• • Each small band which usually consisted of a family or two used a huge area and there is evidence of territorialism within their lands.
• • As physical devlopment continued through the period of the ice age, it is obvious that the key to humanity has been several things:
• • Dominance over animals
• • Understanding of requirements necessary to cohabitate with environment
• • Development of Fire
• • Development of Animal and Plant domestication techniques
• • The first three are PALEOLITHIC achievements the last is a Neolithic
Neolithic Man
□ ♦ Neolithic: New Stone Age
□ ♦ Time frame: 8,000 BC(3,000 BC
□ ♦ The rise of the Homo Sapien
□ ♦ Homo-human, Sapien knowing
□ ♦ Earliest example: Neanderthals found in the Neand Gorge in Germany
□ ♦ Time frame: 150,000(35,000 years ago
□ ♦ Characteristics:
□ ♦ Nomads
□ ♦ Large game hunters, Mammoth
□ ♦ Better tools
□ ♦ Better clothing and shelter
□ ♦ Early examples of religious belief, by the burial of items with their dead…an afterlife
□ ♦ Their demise in 34,000 BC is uncertain
□ ♦ Cro Magnon
□ ♦ Appeared near the time of Neanderthal demise
□ ♦ Nomads/Hunters
□ ♦ First group structure
□ ♦ First examples of male female distinction, in drawings
□ ♦ Advancements:
□ ♦ Tools
□ ♦ Grind and polish
□ ♦ Saws, chisels, and wedges
□ ♦ Weapons
□ ♦ Spears
□ ♦ Bow and Arrow
□ ♦ Needle
□ ♦ Forces beyond their control
□ ♦ Religion
□ ♦ Neolithic mans most significant contribution…Agriculture
□ ♦ Agricultural Revolution: 8,000 BC(5,000 BC
□ ♦ Most likely occurred by accident
□ ♦ Most likely occurred in present day Syria or Jordan in the Middle East
□ ♦ 6,000 BC the invention of the plow
□ ♦ Domestication of Animals probably developed from taking in weak or young animals that were hunted…they were then tamed and began to breed. Hey a food source!
□ ♦ Storage: clay pots and jars for grains
□ ♦ Around these new processes will arise
□ ♦ new community functions, specialization of jobs
□ ♦ Religious values due to controlling of the necessary ingredients of agriculture by beings beyond our control
□ ♦ Gaining control of environment around them
□ ♦ Rise of economics
□ ♦ Allowing for permanence of settlements
□ ♦ Variety of settlement
□ ♦ Surpluses are going to allow for free time which will allow the rise of human thought processes beyond the demands of controlling human food needs.
□ ♦ Cultural development
❑ θ Thus the four keys to human cultural evolution and the road to modernism are…
❑ θ Fire
❑ θ Agriculture
❑ θ Coexistence with environment
❑ θ Dominance over Animals
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