part 1

• Three-age System

  This gave birth to the designation of three prehistorical periods
• Three-age system

  The categories of materials were:

  1. STONE
  2. BRONZE
  3. IRON
• Christian Jürgensen Thomsen, an archaeologist and curator of the National Museum of Denmark
• Christian Jürgensen Thomsen, classified a collection of ancient tools based on the materials they were made of.
• Stone Age

  which started at the beginning of human existence until about 3,000 BCE
• Stone Age - is marked by the invention and use of stone tools by our early human ancestors
• Stone Age

  the eventual transformation of the society from a culture of hunting and gathering to farming and food production.
• Stone Age

  is practically difficult for our ancestors because resources are not abundant, and they are also living in the midst of wild animals making them easy targets/prey
• Stone Age

  We know relatively little about this era because there are limited to no written accounts of the human activities that occurred here
• Stone Age

  Only cave drawings, unearthed artifacts (such as stone tools, bone tools) are available for us to study, leaving us with little capacity to contemplate.
• Archaeologists have found Stone Age tools 25,000-50,000 year-old all over the world.
• Stone Age

  The most common are daggers and spear points for hunting, hand axes and choppers for cutting up meat and scrapers for cleaning animal hides. Other tools were used to dig roots, peel bark and remove the skins of animals.
• A very important tool for early man was flakes struck from flint.
• splinters of bones were used as needles and fishhooks
• flakes struck from flint could cut deeply into big game for butchering.
• The Stone Age is divided into three separate periods

  1. Paleolithic
  2. Mesolithic
  3. Neolithic
• Paleolithic Period

  The earth was on ice age
• Paleolithic period

  humans were food gatherers/hunters, depending on hunting wild animals and birds, fishing, and collecting wild fruits, nuts, and berries.
• Paleolithic Period

  They are nomads with no permanent shelters
• Paleolithic Period

  The record of this long interval is very incomplete; it can be studied from imperishable objects made of flint, stone, bone, and antler.
• Paleolithic Period

  There are notable tools and ornaments created by our forerunners during this old stone period.
• notable tools and ornaments in Paleolithic period

  1. Venus
  2. needle
  3. fur clothing
  4. pit houses
  5. personal ornaments and crude
  6. pottery and baskets
• Venus - a carving of a voluptuous woman out of ivory of stone.
• The Paleolithic people are credited with inventing the needle for sewing
• Venus is not definite as to what this carving means to the early humans, but historians infer that this is an ancient representation of beauty while for some, a penchant for fertility.
• Fur clothing were also made from the fur of the animals they hunted, as well as leather from animal skin and linen from flax.
• They also invented pit houses, temporary shelters that they can bring with them and reassemble to a new location
• personal ornaments and crude (not polished) hunting tools made of stone were invented during this time
• Paleolithic people also invented containers like pottery and baskets, which they used for gathering and storing various liquid and dry goods, to keep them from spoiling
• Paleolithic period is further divided into:

  1. Lower
  2. Middle
  3. Upper

  Paleolithic periods, each representing a distinguishable cultural feature.
• Lower Paleolithic

  Marked the age of human evolution with the development of simple tools such as stone choppers - believed to be made all the way back to the Australopithecus and Homo erectus
• Lower Paleolithic

  Marked the age of human evolution with the development of simple tools such as stone choppers - believed to be made all the way back to the Australopithecus and Homo erectus
• Human lineage:

  1. Australopithecus Afarensis
  2. Homo Habilis
  3. Homo Erectus
  4. Homo Neanderthalensis
  5. Homo Sapiens
• Upper Paleolithic

  • Homo sapiens groups
• Upper Paleolithic

  • Known for communal hunting, extensive fishing, supernatural beliefs, cloth sewing, sculpture, painting, and personal ornaments from bones, horns, and ivory.
• Mesolithic Period

  This period marked the end of the last Ice Age, which resulted in the extinction of many large mammals and rising sea levels and climate change that eventually caused man to migrate.
• Mesolithic Period

  Humans used small stone tools (microliths), now also more polished and sometimes crafted with points and attached to antlers, bone or wood to serve as spears and arrows.
• Microliths - Small stone tools
• Microliths - This tool was also used for digging the ground and stitching clothes.
• Mesolithic Period

  They often lived nomadically in camps near rivers and other bodies of water.