Paleolithic Age
What does Paleolithic mean?
Old Stone
What does Neolithic mean?
New Stone
Which group of stone age people began farming?
neolithic
what was the major technology of both the paleolithic and the neolithic eras?
Stone
Cave dwelling people are most often associated with this stone age era
Paleolithic era
These people travel from place to place to find food.
Nomads
Neolithic people did this to get food
Farmed crops and domesticated animals
What do we call the major cultural shift from hunting and gathering to organized farming?
what kind of stone was a major breakthrough for paleolithic people?
flint
nomads
This is another name for paleolithic people. It's based on how they obtained their food.
Hunter-Gatherers
Neolithic people farmed crops and domesticated animals, therefore, they had this type of lifestyle.
settled. or permanent.
explain the relationship between farming and permanent settlements.
The practical application of knowledge is called what?
Technology
What would paleolithic huts and tents be made out of?
animal hide.
made food taste better
less disease
kept animals away
helped them hunt
increased brain activity
kept them warm
increased language development
Describe Domestication
Instead of hunting animals for meat, neolithic people would stay in one place and raise their own animals where they lived. Domestication is the taming of animals for meat or milk or farm labor.
What do we call it when people train for a particular job?
Job Specialization
This form of technology helped paleolithic people grow bigger brains and fight off both animals and diseases.
fire
neolithic communities built homes out of what kind of material?
mud brick
A stone axe or spear can help a paleolithic person hunt or skin an animal. It makes that person's life easier.
Technology is the practical use of knowledge.
Describe Job Specialization
With the production of more food, not everyone had to be a farmer. Farm work was delegated to a section of the population, leaving the rest of the people to do other kinds of work. People began to specialize in one trade or skill because they didn't have to spend their whole day finding food for the village or tribe.
Describe the relationship between farming and job specialization.
With the production of more food, not everyone had to be a farmer. Farm work was delegated to a section of the population, leaving the rest of the people to do other kinds of work. People began to specialize in one trade or skill because they didn't have to spend their whole day finding food for the village or tribe.
Explain how stone age technology changed from paleolithic to neolithic communities.
why would neolithic communities stay in permanent settlements? Describe why this change from nomadic to permanent happened.
Paleolithic communities used to travel with their food source. Neolithic communities no longer had to do this because they created their own, permanent food source. Once the food stopped moving, so did the people.