Exploring the Stone Age

What is the Stone Age?

• The Stone Age is the earliest known period of human culture, marked by the creation and use of stone tools.

• An era characterized by advanced agricultural practices.

• The time when dinosaurs roamed the Earth.

• A period defined by the use of metal tools.

What tools did people use in the Paleolithic?

• Glass tools

• Metal tools

• Plastic tools

• Stone tools, bone tools, and wooden tools.

How did people live during the Paleolithic period?

• People lived as nomadic hunter-gatherers, relying on hunting and foraging.

• People primarily engaged in trade and commerce with neighboring tribes.

• People lived in permanent settlements and farmed the land.

• People built large cities and developed advanced technologies.

What major discovery helped people in the Paleolithic?

• Domestication of animals

• Control of fire

• Agriculture development

• Invention of the wheel

What does Mesolithic mean?

• Middle Stone Age

• Early Stone Age

• Neolithic Era

• Iron Age

What improvements were made to tools in the Mesolithic?

• Introduction of metal tools for farming

• Development of pottery for storage

• Improvements included the creation of microliths and a greater variety of tools for hunting and gathering.

• Use of fire for tool making

What animals did people start to domesticate in the Mesolithic?

• Cats, pigs, and horses

• Chickens, rabbits, and cows

• Llamas, alpacas, and donkeys

• Dogs, sheep, and goats

What inventions were created during the Mesolithic?

• Pottery wheels

• Agricultural plows

• Stone axes

• Microliths, bow and arrow, fish traps, canoes.

What does Neolithic mean?

• Relating to the early part of the Iron Age when metal tools were first used.

• Relating to the later part of the Stone Age when humans began farming.

• A term used to describe the Bronze Age and its advancements in metallurgy.

• Referring to the time when humans lived in caves and were primarily hunters.

What major change happened during the Neolithic period?

• The invention of the wheel.

• The rise of industrialization.

• The establishment of city-states.

• The major change was the development of agriculture.