T1D Neolithic revolution

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• Middelbare school
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• Leerjaar 1

Neolithic (r)evolution

In today's lesson:

- The meaning of words

- The stone ages

- Neolithic (r)evolution

- Megalithic structures

- Human civilisations

What do we see here?

Who would've made this structure?

What would've been it's purpose?

Words, what do they mean?

- Prehistory

- Palaeolithic
- Mesolithic
- Neolithic
- Revolution
- Evolution

Before history

History (from Greek ἱστορία, historia, meaning "inquiry; knowledge acquired by investigation")

'Pre' means 'before'

Invention of writing = start of 'history'

Rock of Ages

- Paleo: old

- Meso: middle

- Neo: new

- Lithic: stone

The Stone Ages

- Paleolithic age: ~3.000.000 bce - ~15.000 bce

- Mesolithic age: ~15.000 bce - ~10.000 bce

- Neolithic age: ~10.000 bce - ~6500 bce

From hunting to farming

Revolution or evolution?

Göbekli Tepe

- A Megalithic structure (made with huge stones)

- Built ~12.000 years ago

- Abandoned ~ 8000 years ago

- Built in the Fertile Crescent/Croissant

- Right at the start of the Neolithic age

- Who built it?

- Why?

- What can we learn from this?

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Stonehenge

Other Megalithic monuments

- Dolmen (Hunebedden)

- Huge and heavy stones

- Burial sites (graves)

Globally found

- Europe

- North Africa

- India

- Southeast Asia

The key to human survival/success

Coöperation!

For next class

- We'll start with early civilisations

Read chapter 2.1!