Introduction Hunters and Gatherers

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How long do humans exist?

Earth is 4,000 million years old

If you would plot the entire life span of the Earth in a year calander, on which day would the humans be born?

How long do humans exist?

Earth is 4,000 million years old

The first humans

what kind of food could you find here?

what kind of food could you find here?

what kind of food could you find here?

Hunters and gatherers

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Nomadic lifestyle

Hunting animals

Gathering food

Stone Age

Division of tasks

Hunters and gatherers

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Small huts made of reet, branches and leaves found in the area

women are working on an animals skin, what could they be making?

fish from the river

men are fishing with spears

men with spears and bows and arrows are reading themselves for the hunt

women are crafting tools and household materials from gathered products

dogs are already owned as pets and used for the hunt

What do women do?

1. Hunt on animals
2. Cook and farm
3. craft tools and clothing
4. gather food

What are nomads?

1. poor people without a place to live
2. farmers
3. people who travelled around in search for food
4. half humans - half apes

Hunter-Gatherers had a .... lifestyle

1. Sedentary
2. Nomadic
3. Chaotic
4. Diverse

Why do the nomads travel around?

Instruction: get to work

Read 

1. Go to tijdvoorgeschiedenis.nl 
2. Click 'Materials'
3. Click '2. Prehistory'
4. Click '2.2 Nature, fire, culture' and do the assignments

houses, made of straw, clay, wood.

small fields with different kinds of crops. 

domesticated animals. 

Agricultural revolution

The moment when people switched from hunting and gathering to agriculture

This was a big change in society

(Society of hunters and gatherers --> agricultural society)

A revolution means: a big change in society.

Life changed completely!!!

The first farmers still do a lot by hand.

Farming was hard, but hunting was much harder!

Through the invention of animal breeding they now use domesticated animals for that purpose...

Hmm...

What kind of animal could do this work for me?

The transition form Hunter-Gatherers to Farmers we call:

1. History
2. Agricultural Revolution
3. Prehistory
4. The first civilisations

Where did the first farmers live?
Choose the correct letter.

1. Middle East
2. Europe
3. Africa
4. Asia

Hunter-gatherers

Farmers

Name the differences between the life-style of hunters and farmers? You may add a picture.

read 1.3 find a word you don't know.

write down the word plus translation.

Dolmen

Ancients graves in Drenthe.

Find other domens around the world.