Neolithic Revolution

Neolithic Revolution

Agricultural Revolution

Life Before Agriculture

Life After Agriculture

Food Supply

Shelter

Social Structure (Government & Religion)Art and Innovation

Specialization

Language

Life Before AgricultureFood Supply

• Food gatherers not food producers

• Nomadic• Followed

migration patterns of animals

Life Before Agriculture Shelter• Lived in what

the environment could provide• Caves

• Temporary shelters

Life Before AgricultureSocial Structure• Based on the

family• Clan – group of

families

Life Before AgricultureArt and Innovation• Art work• Lascaux Cave

Paintings in France

• Primitive tools and weapons• Fire• Sewing

needles

Life Before AgricultureSpecialization• None• Subsistence

lifestyle dictated that the #1 priority for ALL family members was to find food.

Life Before AgricultureLanguage• Verbal

communication• Symbols to

mark important places

Agricultural Revolution• Man learns to farm = able to settle

in one place = able to acquire more things

• Took several thousand years

Life After AgricultureFood Supply• Food Producing• Crops

• Domesticated animals• Food• Work (beast of

burden)• Hunting

secondary

Life After AgricultureShelter• Mud bricks• Stones –

eventually• Located near

fields and other food sources

Life After AgricultureSocial Structure• When clans

started to live close to each other, social structures became more complex

• Gender separation

Life After AgricultureSocial Structure• Religion

developed• Governments

developed

Life After AgricultureArt and Innovation• Complex tools

like weapons, plows pulled by animals, cloth making and weaving, and carving were developed

• Religious buildings

• Architecture

Life After AgricultureSpecialization• Specialization

began• Not everyone

had to be a hunter or gatherer

• Trade began

Life After AgricultureLanguage• Pictographic

languages• Hieroglyphics

• Written language• Business

transactions

City

Specialized Skills

Division of labor

Written language

Cities

Civilzation

Civilizations

Characteristics?