Humans Try to

Control Nature
 Technology
• Survival is no longer the MAIN priority

• Nomadic Hunters and Gatherers

• Roving bands of Cro-Magnons

• Their primary objective was to increase
their food supply
 Tool Kits
• Skillfully created
and invented
– Spears for hunting
– Digging sticks
•These items (among
nearly 100 others) were
fashioned out of stone,
bone and wood.
• Knives, hooks and
harpoons
Another collection of tools and art
 Cave Painting
• Mainly in France and
Spain
– Lifelike images, IN COLOR
• Africa
– Engravings
• Australia
– Rock art

Video Clips:

The Artists of Cave Art

The Subjects
 The Neolithic Revolution
• AGRICULTURAL REVOLUTION
– When did this occur?
• Shift from gathering to producing
• What could have possibly caused this shift in
lifestyle? Any ideas?
– Why would it suddenly have been easier to cultivate
the land?
• The following slides will further outline the
Neolithic Revolution
 Early Farming and Domesticating Animals
• Slashing and Burning
• Shift to Pastoral
Herding from
hunting and
gathering.
 Villages Grow and Prosper
• Africa
• China
• Mexico
and
Central
America
• Peru
 Catal Huyuk
• Located in present day
Turkey
• Prosperity
– Obsidian products
– Agricultural
Achievements
– 6,000 people
• Drawbacks
– Floods, Draughts and
other Natural Disasters
– Disease
– Attacks
– Looting
Catal Huyuk
Catal Huyuk