Stone Age

By: Aubrey Lewis, Adam Miller, Shalonda Gray, Kelley Clark

General Information

• 3 parts make up stone age

• Paleolithic, Mesolithic, Neolithic

• Started about 2.5 million years ago

• Didn’t only use stone tools; also wood, bone, shell, antler

• Became more advance as groups encountered other cultures more technologically developed

Paleolithic• Created 1st stone tools

• Used knapped stone tools

• They were hunters and gathers

• Towards the end of the Paleolithic era humans began to produce works of art

• Also at this time started to be

more religious and spiritual (burials and rituals)

Mesolithic• Started at the end of the last ice age

(10,000 years ago)

• Had more complex settlements (tribes)

• Mostly hunting and gathering but some farming and fishing is introduced

• Started using bow and arrows and fishing baskets

• Earliest known battle was recorded in the era

Neolithic• Mostly farming, hunting,

gathering, and fishing

• Tools: hoes, chisels, reaping hook, barley, loom , pottery and weapons

• Domestication is taking place

• Living on farmsteads

• tribes and starting to have chiefs

Resources• Bc, By 9500–9000. "Neolithic." Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia. Web. 20 Aug. 2010. <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neolithic>.

• "Mesolithic." Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia. Web. 20 Aug. 2010. <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mesolithic>.

• "Paleolithic." Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia. Web. 20 Aug. 2010. <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paleolithic>.

• "Stone Age." Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia. Web. 20 Aug. 2010. <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stone_Age>.