BUILD TIMELINE. LEARN EUROPEAN HERITAGE Nyhamre skola Bollnas, Sweden May 19 th -23 rd 2014.

BUILD TIMELINE. LEARN EUROPEAN HERITAGE

Nyhamre skolaBollnas, Sweden

May 19th -23rd 2014

Comenius Project

Prehistory

Paleolithic (4.000.000/12.000)

Mesolithic (12.000/ 8.000)

Neolithic (8.000/3.500)

Protostoria(Early history)

Or

Metal Age

Prehistory

Australophitecus Homo habilis

The evolution of man

Homo erectus Homo sapiens

4.000.000/3.000.000years ago

3.000.000/500.000years ago

500.000/12.000years ago

Homo sapiens sapiens

AUSTRALOPHITECUS

He CAN live on or under

the trees

HOMO HABILIS

He HAS GOT a big brainHe IS ABLE TO create

simple useful objects with stones

The evolution of man in Africa

HOMO SAPIENS

He CAN huntbig animals

He LOOKS LIKE a man

HOMO SAPIENS SAPIENS

He IS ABLE TO create useful objects

with different materialsHe DRAWS pictures on

the rock

The evolution of man in Italy

HOMO ERECTUS

He LEARNS to stay erectHe IS taller

He DISCOVERS the fireHe CAN speak

He GOES FROM Africa to Asia and Europe

Cave Art using coloured powders

Cave Art: painting on the rock

Cave Art: carving on the rock

Cave Art: paintings

Cave Art using the whiteboard

Cave Art’s animation: the “taumatropio”

Cave Art’s animation using the ICT

Prehistory In our region Abruzzo

Prehistory In our region Abruzzo

The oldest archaeological finding is dated from about 350.000-400.000 years ago and consist of

flint tools, mainly large, two sided chipped stones. These items were discovered in the areas of

Madonna del Freddo and the Zannini Farm near our town Chieti and also in the hills along the coast

near Ortona and in an important settlements at the foot of the Maiella Mountain.

These findings indicate the haunts and movements of groups of huntsmen and fruitpicker, belonging to the species of Homo Erectus, the most ancient population of this territory, last present 200.000-

150.000 years ago. Hand-axe

Madonna del Freddo

Prehistory In our region Abruzzo

The culture of the Mid-Palaeolithic Age, began 150.000 years back

and spread up till 40.000 years ago, saw the appearance of some objects made by Neandertal Man.

From 40.000 to about 10.000 years ago, Homo Sapiens was present in

the area between Caramanico and Roccamorice, a strategic territory for hunting and extracting material.

Here, in the area occupied by the ancient Marrucino people, many important examples of rock paintings have

been discovered.Groups of humans and animal figures are represented together with typical geometric symbols (lines. circles,

squares)

Reproductionof rocks paintings

in the Marrucino area

Protostoria (Early History)

Copper Age)

Bronze Age

Iron Age

From the 4° millennium BC to 1° millennium BC

Chieti’sFoundation

1108 BC

Prehistory In our region Abruzzo

In the valley of Tirino river, thanks to its abundance of water and the happy easily defensible, position, between 9000 and 8000 years ago there existed one

of the earliest settlements of Mesolithic Abruzzo.In the Tritana Valley the Neolithic comes much later - around 5000 BC -

introduced by passing populations that teach impressed pottery.