By Niklas Evans, Period 7

THE PALEOLITHIC AGE VS THE NEOLITHIC AGE.

WHEN WERE THE PALEOLITHIC AND THE NEOLITHIC AGES?

• The Paleolithic age was from around 3 million years BC to around 8000 BC

• The Neolithic age was from around 8000 BC to around 3000 BC

GETTING FOOD-PALEOLITHIC• The Paleolithic Age people were hunter-gatherers

• They hunted to get food

• This meant that they had to follow prey in order to sustain a steady food supply

• They also gathered food such as berries

• This meant that as food supplies ran out in an area they had to find new places to get food

GETTING FOOD-NEOLITHIC• The people in the Neolithic Age were farmers

• This is the main difference that set them apart from the Paleolithic Age peoples

• As farming was created, people could settle down into towns and villages because they no longer needed to chase their food supplies

LIVING CONDITIONS IN THE PALEOLITHIC AGE

• As food was hard to come by during the Paleolithic Age, people lived in small, nomadic tribes.

• They moved around and followed their food sources

• They often lived in caves and other natural shelters while they hunted and gathered in a specific area and then they moved on to another area

• As groups got too big they would split up into smaller groups and go their separate ways

LIVING CONDITIONS IN THE NEOLITHIC AGE

• As farming was created in the Neolithic Age, the need to move around to chase food was eliminated.

• Instead, they formed small villages and built permanent houses and structures to live in

• Slowly, governments and other public services were established which led to the creation of civilization

RELIGION IN THE PALEOLITHIC AGE

• The Paleolithic Age, people worshiped animals

• There is evidence of early Paleolithic burials

• There was one case where a human was buried with a Panther’s paw

• This shows that animals were very important to the Paleolithic society and sometimes animal parts were kept as trophies of the hunt and had a lot of sentimental value

RELIGION IN THENEOLITHIC AGE

• They buried the dead in graves, along with their weapons, pottery, food and drink in the belief that these things were required after death.

• The warships plants and animals as their ancestors and protectors

• They also worship forces of nature such as the sun, the moon, and stars believing that they had special powers

• They also worshipped clay figurines of “Mother Goddess” believing that that would cause the fertility of their land to increase.

INNOVATIONS OF THE PALEOLITHIC AGE

• The people in the Paleolithic age created the first tools out of bones, stone, and wood

• They learned how to use fire to keep warm, for light, and to harden tools such as spearheads

• They created the hand ax which was used to sort of like a modern-day Swiss Army knife in that it had a great variety of uses and almost everybody had one

INNOVATIONS OF THE NEOLITHIC AGE

• The Neolithic Age farming was created

• People learn how to build houses and permanent villages

• They created metal tools

• They learned how to domesticate animals

• They created and used pottery

THE NEOLITHIC REVOLUTION• As a result of the Neolithic Revolution life was changed

in many ways

• People became social and lived in groups permanently

• They created farming which then created excess crops and resulted in the beginning of trading

• All of this slowly resulted in the beginnings of civilization

• This set the foundation for modern day civilizations such as America