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    The prehistoric period spans from 4.5 million years ago to 3700 BCE and saw major accomplishments like tool manufacture and use, communication, and the domestication of animals and plants. The Paleolithic period from 500,000 BCE to 6000 BCE was characterized by hunting and gathering, art, simple stone tools, and shelters. The Neolithic period began around 6000 BCE in the Middle East and saw the development of food production, polished stone tools, settled villages, and population growth. This led to more complex social structures.

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    The prehistoric period spans from 4.5 million years ago to 3700 BCE and saw major accomplishments like tool manufacture and use, communication, and the domestication of animals and plants. The Paleolithic period from 500,000 BCE to 6000 BCE was characterized by hunting and gathering, art, simple stone tools, and shelters. The Neolithic period began around 6000 BCE in the Middle East and saw the development of food production, polished stone tools, settled villages, and population growth. This led to more complex social structures.

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    Prehistory

    An Overview

    The prehistoric period


    c. 4.5 MYA-3700 BCE
    Major accomplishments
    Tool manufacture and use
    Communication
    Verbal
    Written?

    Domestication of animals
    And plants?

    Finally: agriculture
    The First Wave

    The Paleolithic period


    old stone age
    c. 500,000 BCE - c. 6000 BCE
    Basic features
    Hunting and gathering
    Remarkable art (and religion?)
    Simple tools of chipped stone
    Simple shelters
    Fire
    c. 150,000 BCE?

    Language

    The Neolithic period


    Began in Middle East around 6000 BCE
    to c. 3700 BCE

    Basic features
    Food production
    Polished stone tools
    and weapons?

    More settled, less nomadic lifestyles


    permanent villages
    Population increases
    Development of a more complex (and satisfying?)
    social order

    Human evolution

    The Australopithecines
    Lucy

    Homo habilis
    Handy Man

    Homo erectus

    The mysterious Neanderthal


    The subject of one of
    prehistorys most
    intriguing questions

    Eating
    Who was the more productive?
    The hunter?
    Or the gatherer?

    The peripatetic life

    Extraordinary art!

    Cave art (cont.)


    What general theme is
    evident here?

    Cave artists

    Paleolithic religion?

    Homo faber
    Early stone tools
    A. Homo habilis
    B. Homo erectus
    C. Neanderthal

    C.

    A.

    B.

    The Fertile Crescent


    shaduf

    Farming

    Settling down
    Prerequisite to civilization

    Jericho
    Jordan River valley
    c. 8000 BCE

    Catal Hyk
    Modern Turkey
    c. 6500 BCE

    Catal Hyk (cont.)

    The first writing?

    Neolithic religious life

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