Lesson 2: Early FarmersPage 18-23

Objective:

• To learn about domestication and how farming changed the way of life for the Stone Age people.

Question of the Day

Put the following events in chronological order: ~Beringia forms, ~Ice Age ends, ~people leave artifacts in Clovis, NM,

~migration to North America

1.1. Beringia formsBeringia forms

2.2. Migration to North AmericaMigration to North America

3.3. People leave artifacts in Clovis, NMPeople leave artifacts in Clovis, NM

4.4. Ice Age endsIce Age ends

Vocabulary

DomesticateDomesticate

HarvestHarvest

AgricultureAgriculture

TechnologyTechnology

NomadNomad

Carbon datingCarbon dating

Excavation siteExcavation site

The way humans produce the items they use (hint: Mr. Klumper’s SMARTboard)

Method of estimating the age of something after it has died.

To Tame

To Gather

Site where archaeologist uncover artifacts

Raising of plants and animals for human use

Person who travels from place to place, without permanent home

Excavation Site

Technology

Harvest

Nomad

Surplus

Domesticate

Stone Age

Old Stone Age

• Lasted 3,490,000 Years

• Very Little Progress Made

Technology slow in Old Stone Age

Technology Today?

Old Stone Age Tools

Then……. and Now….

3,490,000 Years20 years

New Stone Age

What Caused the Transition from Old Stone Age to New Stone Age?

Ended 5,000 years ago b/c of Metal Working

New Stone Age Begins:• Advances in Stone working• Polished Rock tools• Glaciers gone—Wild plants and food crops• Domesticated animals and Plants

– Continues today

Early Farming: 1st Plants

Early Farming• 1st Plants: wheat, rice, barley (grains)

• Seeds don’t spread

“Jute”: strong fibers used for

rope and nets

First Animals to be Domesticated

• Animals produce milk and wool—Sell items

• Animals plow fields—sell the surplus

Sell for What?

Change in lifestyle

Skara Brae

Skara Brae

• 50 people

• Scotland

• Raised sheep and cattle

• Farmed

Traded Surplus

Social Division

How does surplus create a social division?

What is a social division?