Lesson 2: Early Farmers

Lesson 2: Early FarmersPage 18-23

Objective:

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

Vocabulary

DomesticateDomesticate

SurplusSurplus

HarvestHarvest

AgricultureAgriculture

TechnologyTechnology

NomadNomad

Carbon datingCarbon dating

Excavation siteExcavation site

The way humans produce the items they need

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

Having extra or an abundance of something

Excavation Site

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 AgeWhat Caused the Transition from Old Stone Age to

New Stone Age?Ended 5,000 years ago b/c of Metal WorkingNew 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• 1st Plants: wheat,

rice, barley (grains)

First Animals to be Domesticated

Domestication of Animals

• 10,000 years ago Dogs, goats, cattle, sheep domesticated.

• Depend on Humans for survival; tame

VS.

Useful CreaturesHorsesDonkeysCamels

Transportation for Nomads

Transportation of Food

Honey

Wax for candles

Venom for medicine

• 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

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