A time of great change when

people began raising crops and

animals for human use

• Written or created during the time period.
• The creator was present

Examples:  Cave Paintings, A diary

Author or creator was not present during the

time or for the event

examples:  Encyclopedia, Textbook

When people are trained to perform

different types of jobs

A culture that has developed political (government) and economic systems, has religion and achievements and is effected by their geography

Technology

Inventing or using "things" to make a job easier.

The traditions and accomplishments handed

 down to later generations

Circa

around a particular year

ex.  Circa 1976 - The building was built or estabilished around 1976

• 1st Language (grunts, gestures, symbols)
• 1st Religious beliefs
• 1st Culture

• Exchangining one item for another. 

• During the New Stone Age people were able to trade goods because they had a surplus and they had specialized skills.

Large sheets of ice that covered the earth

• food
• clothing
• blankets
• shelter
• tools
• weapons

• Sticks and Stone
• Spear Throwers
• Spears
• Axes
• Scrapers

• Bones
• Animal Skins
• Trees
• Leaves
• Caves

How the discovery of fire changes life in

the Old Stone Age

• Cooking
• Protection
• Light
• Heat

How did people of the Old Stone Age get their food?

Hunting and Gathering

• Men Hunted: deer, bison wild horses, wooly mammoth

• Women/Children Gathered: berries, nuts, roots

• study of past events 
• the branch of knowledge that records and analyzes past events

• history before written word
• the period before history was first recorded in writing

a change from hunting and gathering

to farming to get food

Old Stone Age

Also known as:  Ice Age or Paleolithic Age

Given this name because tools/technology

were made of stone

Ice Age

A time when the glaciers covered 1/4 of the earth

It began millions of years ago and lasted millions of years