Monday, 10-10-16

YES! Composition Notebooks Today!

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Religous Diversity Journey (RDJ) applications due today. Turn in to me before the day is over!

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Turn in Discovery of Ardi homework from last Friday if you haven’t done so already!

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Monday, 10-10/16

Label Your Composition Notebook 2.3

Today’s Writing Prompts

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• What is your favorite of the Four Seasons and why?

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Paleolithic Era - Explained

2,000,000 to 10,000 BCE

As you can see by your chart, we will investigate both the Paleolithic as well as the Neolithic time period and then we will compare them. Our first focus will be the Paleolithic time period.

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Lascaux Caves were done during the Paleolithic time period. You will see them (virtually) during tomorrow’s web quest.

The First Humans

Paleolithic

Paleo = Old

Lithic = Stone

Neolithic

Neo = New

Lithic = Stone

The earliest humans probably lived in Africa.

They spread to the rest of the world over the next tens of thousands of years as they hunted and gathered food to survive.

How old are Hominids?

• 1 billion years old
• About 65 million years old
• About 30 million years old
• About 3-4 million years old

Dinosaurs lived about Over 65 million years ago…

…even though you may find lots of movies with humans getting eaten by dinosaurs, dinosaurs were long dead before humans showed up on earth!

How do we know?

Lucy...

• discovered in 1974
• discovered in Hadar, Ethiopia
• Lucy is believed to be over 3 million years old!
• Evidence of humans walking upright!

Paleolithic Era

• REMEMBER
• Paleolithic Era also means Old Stone Age.
• The Paleolithic Age began two million-years ago

Paleolithic Era

• Homo Sapiens during this period were . . .
• Nomads
• Making simple

tools and weapons.

• Making cave art
• Mastering the use of fire.
• Developing language
• Living in clans

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Paleolithic Lifestyle-Dwellings

Homes

• Small homes
• Caves, huts, or “tents”
• Small groups of people
• Found near water (rivers, lakes)
• Nomadic – move around often

Food

• Hunter/Gatherers
• Meat was either hunted or scavenged
• Fruits/Vegetables must be scavenged
• NO GROWING FOOD

Key Concepts (chart): - Dwellings

• Nomadic Lifestyle – followed herds
• Temporary Houses
• Small groups of people
• Animal skin tents, caves, and huts –

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Interesting note: People did not live in caves like Lascaux or if they stayed, it was for a very short period of time. One theory is that Lascaux was more “magical” with ties to the Animism belief, even used as a kind of place of worship…More about this when we do our cave art project.

Remember that Paleolithic people often had to move from place to place, hunting and gathering. 

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Because of the lack of food and the constant moving, populations tended to be small. Although people were generally healthy, it is relative because of their short life span. They died at a very early age because of  hunger, disease, or injury. It was a very rough lifestyle.

Getting Food

Without becoming food!

Ugh…Me so

Hungry!

Groups of related families united in clans to collect roots, nuts, fruits and seeds. They also hunted together. By co-operating together they met their basic needs for food, clothing and shelter.

The animals they killed provided meat for food, bones for tools, and hides for clothing.

They set up seasonal camps in caves or rock shelters wherever the animals were plentiful.

• Because populations were small, both men and women were important in these early societies.  It is believed that men were the leaders of these little tribes.
• The eldest man ruled until his death.  At that point power would move to the next oldest male. 
• Women, however, had the most important roles during this time period. 
• They had the important role of carrying on life and for the most part they were more successful in finding food. 
• They were the “gatherers.”  They found nuts and berries while the men hunted.  Most times the men were unsuccessful in finding food while the women  weren’t.

While the Paleolithic era refers to the "old stone age," the entire time period during which human beings were making tools of stone,  Art begins at approximately 35,000 BCE.  The time frame for "Paleolithic art" can be described from 35,000 BCE to 12,000 BCE.

• Some theories state that cave artists breathed life into their animal/hunting pictures, showing the importance of the hunt.

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• Some theories state that cave paintings show how humans felt superior to the animals they drew.

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• Some theories state that cave painting stopped when early humans began farming (agriculture)

Key Concepts (chart): - Clothes

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• Animal skins
• Bones used as needles to sew skins together

Key concepts (Chart): Hunt/Farm

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• Hunter/gatherers
• Nomadic – moved with food supplies – followed herds
• Fished
• Ice Age forced them to move/change

Key concepts (Chart): ART

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• Cave Paintings-mostly of animals
• Cave art used in rituals-sometimes animals sacrificed
• Animism – the belief that all living things have spirits

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The Paleolithic Age�

Tool usage

The invention of chipped stone tools

Hunting and gathering bands (20-30 people)

Constantly moving from place to place following food sources (herds of animals, etc.)

Nomadic

Paleolithic Age began about 2 million years ago

Paleolithic Age is often referred to as the Old Stone Age

Rocks were used as tools and weapons during the Paleolithic Revolution

Stone Axe

Spearhead

Flint

Stone Age Artifacts

Cave Paintings are Artifacts too.

Here we see our good friend, Ugamug, hard at work using his tools.

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Watch out for your thumb!

What have we learned?

• How did early people get the food they needed to survive

2. Besides food, for what purposes might early people have worked together?

Bands migrated when food (plants or animals) became scarce in one location.

We’re outta here!

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Yaba-daba-doo!

Spreading Through the World

Reasons for the Migrations

• Couldn’t find enough food
• Growing number of bands
• Changing climate (desertification)
• Follow animals on the move (hunting)

Ice Age

About 35,000 years ago

Ice sheets covered about 1/3 of the earth

Result…ocean level lower & land bridges made

migration to various parts of world

possible

And it made a cool movie too…

Key Concepts (chart): - Tools

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• Chipped stone tools
• Spears, knives, axes, clubs scraper, needles, harpoons
• Cave Lamps (as used for light to paint in caves)

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Key Concepts (chart) Other:

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• Climate – cold, glaciers, fewer plants
• Lived in small groups (clans)
• Everyone SHARED property equally
• People were generally healthy during

their short life span