Midterm Exam Flashcard 2
What are the 3 Age Sytems?
- Stone Age
- Bronze Age
- Iron Age
People discovered, learned
and developed science and
technology as the consequence of their search for food, and other survival
needs, for practical reasons
and even curiosity.
The Dawn Of First Civilizations
What are the 3 distinct period in STONE AGE
- PALEOLITHIC
PERIOD - MESOLITHIC
PERIOD - NEOLITHIC
PERIOD
Man is primarily a food
gatherer and hunter and
lived in caves or huts.
STONE AGE
(2.6 MYA – 3,300 BCE)
STONE AGE
Tools gradually develop
from single to all-purpose
tools to specialized tools
used for specified
functions.
STONE AGE
It is called ‘The Old Stone Age’
PALEOLITHIC
PERIOD
GUESS WHO?
Ancient humans from this period lived in caves, huts and are basically hunter-
gatherers.
STONE AGE
PALEOLITHIC
PERIOD
GUESS WHO?
They used basic stone and bone tools, as well as crude stone axes, for hunting
birds and wild animals.
STONE AGE
PALEOLITHIC
PERIOD
What Age and Period?
They cooked prey (woolly mammoths,
bisons, etc.), controlled fire and ate
berries.
STONE AGE
PALEOLITHIC
PERIOD
GUESS WHO?
First to leave behind art
and carved small figurines.
STONE AGE
PALEOLITHIC
PERIOD
What are the 4 Fundamental Tool Traditions of Paleolithic Period?
- Pebble Tool Tradition
- Bifacial or Handaxe Tool Tradition
- Flake Tool Tradition
- Blade Tool Tradition
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WHICH DISTINCT PERIOD?
Stone tools were
made from a
variety of stones.
PALEOLITHIC TOOLS
Which rocks were shaped
or chipped for use as cutting
tools, flakes, blades and
weapons?
Flint and chert
Which were
used for ground stone tools?
Basalt and sandstone
WHICH DISTINCT PERIOD TOOLS?
Wood, bone, shell, antlers
and other materials were
widely used as well.
PALEOLITHIC TOOLS
►The very first stone
tools were probably naturally broken, sharp-edged rocks that were casually picked up, used
and discarded.
PEBBLE TOOL TRADITION
Simple flaked tools like
choppers, scrapers, or
rudimentary cutting
instruments.
PEBBLE TOOL TRADITION
the
earliest universally
acknowledge stone tool.
Oldowan toolkit
► This tool tradition is used as knives and
scrapers. This is produced by striking the
core of a stone with a stone hammer or by
using a stone hammer with bone or wood as
an intermediate object between the hammer
and the potential stone tool.
FLAKE TOOL TRADITION
*Paleolithic
(Oldowan) cores
and flakes
Characteristic Of Technology
Earlier Stone
Age / Lower
Paleolithic
*Paleolithic
(Acheulean) large
cutting tools:
handaxes, etc.
Characteristic Of Technology
Earlier Stone
Age / Lower
Paleolithic
Characteristic Of Technology
*Paleolithic
Prepared cores,
retouched flake
forms, flake tools
Characteristic Of Technology
Middle Stone
Age / Middle
Paleolithic
*Paleolithic
Prismatic blades,
backed geometric
microliths
Later Stone
Age / Upper
Paleolithic
Characteristic Of Technology
