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Early Humans

• Have to adapt • Different food, sturdier shelter• Language makes it easy for people to work

together

Art

• On caves and walls• Use technology– Not computer– Tools to help humans perform better– Can you think of any?

• Flint, Fish hooks, needles—made from animal bone

Ice Age Ends

• People domesticate animals and plants• People grow food• Start of New Neolithic Era-8000 BC – 4000 BC

Plants

• Grow different things in different areas• Herders remain nomadic—food for animals• Farmers stay close to fields

Jericho

• Earliest community found in Middle East

Catal Huyuk

• 6000 people• 6700 BC- 5700 BC• Hunted, farmed, raised

sheep• Make more than could

eat• Trade in and out of

community• Specalize in jobs

Bronze

• Store grain in pottery• Mix copper and tin=bronze• Bronze Age 3000 BC – 1200 BC