Bell WorkUse the timeline on 24-25 to answer the

following questions

1. About when did the first modern humans appear in Africa?

2. When did the Ice Ages end?3. About how many years passed

between the end of the Ice Ages and Catal Huyuk’s growth into a large town?

4. Why does the time line have breaks in it?

Chapter 2: The Stone Ages and Early Cultures

Prehistory Hominid Ancestor Tool Paleolithic

Era Society Hunter-

Gatherers

Migrate Ice Ages Land

bridge Mesolithic

Era

Neolithic Era

Domestication

Agriculture Megaliths

How do movies, comic strips, television programs, video

games, or other media.

Prehistory

Writing was not invented until about 5,000 years ago. Thus, historians call the time before there was writing prehistory.

Archaeologists(Important Discovers about

prehistory) Mary and Louis

Leakey 1959 Bones in East

Africa Date back 1.5

million years old

Donald Johanson

1974 Bones in East

Africa (Ethiopia) Date back 3

million years old Lucy

Lucy’s Skeleton

Woman Small Walked on 2 legs Australopithecus

Early Hominids and Stone Age Tools

Australopithecus

Homo Habilis Homo Erectus Homo Sapien

The Stone Ages The Stone Ages are divided into 3 periods

based on the kinds of tools used at the time.

What is a tool?

Paleolithic (Old Stone Age) Mesolithic (Middle Stone Age) Neolithic (New Stone Age)

AssignmentCreate a Flow Chart

Use an entire page Name of the Hominid Nickname Location of the hominid List type of tools they used (made out

of) How did they create them Explain what the tools were used for Draw an example of the tool used

Flow Chart ExampleAustralopithecus

Homo Habilis

Homo Erectus

Homo Sapien

Paleolithic PeriodHunter Gatherer Society

Page 32 Activities:

Identify the various activities going on in the picture.

Hardships What hardships did early hunter-

gatherers face, suggested by the picture? Chores:

What is the difference between the men’s chores and women’s chores, shared chores?

Stone AgeLanguage, Art, Religion

Language-most important Art-Cave Paintings Religion-little knowledge

How did Stone Age people communicate?

Communicating Without Words Activity