PPT-Life in Neolithic Communities

Why did the Agricultural Revolution Occur Obvious advantages Climate change leads people to abandon hunting and gathering in favor of agriculture or pastoralism Great Ice Age Ends Temperate lands become exceptionally warm between 6000BCE2000BCE. Why Humans Settled Down. Why Humans Became Food Producers. Foraging. Farming. Knew much about local plant and animal species. Good nutrition. Less work. Stable food supply. Hard work. Food source is unreliable – food crisis. Where, why and How.. Avebury. Stone Circles. Avebury. is the largest stone circle in the world: it is 427m (1401ft) in diameter covers an area of some 28 acres (11.5 . ha). It . is an extraordinary site formed by a huge circular . Ms. . Carmelitano. Recap: How do we learn about the past. Archaeology. Archaeological digs. Radiocarbon Dating. : The process of studying the decay of carbon-14 to estimate the age of organic materials, such as wood and leather, up to about 58,000 to 62,000 years. Neolithic Arrowhead. Essential Questions. How did people obtain food during the Paleolithic Age? What problems resulted from this method?. What discovery signified the beginning of the Neolithic Age and what changes came about as a result of this discovery? . Your task is to create a storybook about the Paleolithic and Neolithic ages that is suitable to read to a second grade student. Your book should compare the two ages and the Ice Age, and have appropriate illustrations to go along with the factual text. Your goal is to present the information from chapter three in a different and more creative format. . Ms. . Carmelitano. The Neolithic Revolution. The “New Stone Age”. The Agricultural Revolution. The shift from “food gathering” to “food producing”. Began between 9000 – 5000 BCE. Important Note. How did the development of agriculture change life in the Neolithic Age?. Paleolithic Age. The “Old Stone Age” from 2 million years ago to 8000 B.C.E.. Begins with tool-making hominids (Homo . Habilis. Answer Both Questions. AIM: What are the characteristics of the Paleolithic and Neolithic?. The New . Stone Age. Neolithic. People starting living in small villages. . What do you think caused this change from moving from place to place?. http://images-eu.amazon.com/images/P/0393317552.03.LZZZZZZZ.jpg. Farming:. The Biggest Mistake???. Food production = Hard Work!. It often led to:. poorer health. shorter lifespan. harder labor for the majority of people . The Mesolithic Age. The . Mesolithic Age. (Middle Stone Age) went from 12,000-8,000 BCE.. Major changes included the ability to shape and sharpen stone tools, make needles out of bone, etc. . More animals were domesticated, like cows.. Neolithic Revolution. Preview. Cultivation and Domestication. - . The Neolithic Revolution was the beginning of farming and settlement. This period represents a complete change in the way of life for the earliest hunter-gatherers. Rubric Break-down. Thesis: Statement of argument addressing the prompt( evaluating the impacts of the Neolithic revolution). Argument development- used to be called grouping of the documents ( ex. Positive, negative, both, political, economic, cultural). http://images-eu.amazon.com/images/P/0393317552.03.LZZZZZZZ.jpg. Food Production:. The Biggest Mistake???. Food production = Hard Work!. It often led to:. poorer health. shorter lifespan. harder labor for the majority of people . The Stone Age. Please take out a blank sheet of paper. Flip the paper so that the longest side is . horizontal. . Divide the sheet into . ten equal . boxes. Title it . (on the faint red line). “Stone Age Toolkit”.