PREHISTORY pertains to the time prior to the

recording of Human events, knowledge of which is gained

mainly through archeological discoveries, studies and
research.

We call prehistory the Stone Age because most tools were made from
stone.
The Stone Age, whose origin coincides with the discovery of the oldest known stone
tools, which have been dated to some 3.3 million years ago, is usually divided into
three separate periodsPaleolithic Period, Mesolithic Period, and Neolithic Period
based on the degree of sophistication in the fashioning and use of tools.

PREHISTORIC AGES
PALEOLITHIC

MESOLITHIC

OLD STONE AGE

About 2 MILLION YEARS AGO

MIDDLE STONE AGE

Around 20000 BC TO 9500 BC

NEW STONE AGE

NEOLITHIC

Around 9500 BC TO 2500 BC

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Scientist believe the HUMANS, the species

HOMO SAPIENS, emerged between
100,000 and 400,000 years ago in Africa
The first humans had forced a struggle for survival. For
thousands and thousands of years, they had two
concerns: finding food and protecting themselves.
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THE PALEOLITHIC AGE

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PEOPLE WERE HUNTERS AND GATHERERS

HUNTED ANIMALS
GATHERED PLANTS, BERRIES, SEEDS, AND NUTS
NOMADIC LIFESTYLE, wandering hunters and gatherers

EGALITHARIAN SOCIETIES
People did different tasks but all equally important
NO PERMANENT SETTLEMENTS
NO FOOD SURPLUS, lived day-to-day

Civilization had not yet emerged. People were pre-civilized.

At its most basic element, civilization is based on the food supply. Uncivilized man lives at
the mercy of the land and weather. He does not provide for times of need.

This style of living:

1) limited population group
2) no permanent settlements
3) social equality.
no gender divisions: men and women both committed to search for food.
no separation of people according to occupation or trade.
No hierarchies or social classes as we know of them today.

KEY PLANNERS
NOMADIC' HUNTER-GATHERERS

(ALSO KNOWN AS FORAGERS)

Move from campsite to campsite, following game and wild fruits and vegetables.
They built one of the earliest known structures or huts (terra amata, nice)

CRO-MAGNONMAN AND GRIMALDIMAN

Grimaldi man was a name given in the early 20th century to an Italian
find of two paleolithic skeletons of short, but finely built people.
Pit houses, the first man-made shelters, were built.

THE MESOLITHIC AGE

MESOLITHIC AGE
THE TIME BETWEEN THE END OF MOST RECENT PERIOD OF GLACIATION
(c. 10000 BC) AND THE BEGINNINGS OF AGRICULTURE
MESOLITHIC PEOPLE LIVED BY HUNTING, GATHERING, AND FISHING.
THE PERIOD IS CHARACTERIZED BY THE USE OF MICROLITHS.

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FLINT

MADE TOOLS FROM STONE WHICH IS CALLED

FLINT
HUNT WILD ANIMALS
NOMADIC LIFESTYLE

Robert R. Converse, the Archaeological Soceity of Ohio

POPULATION DENSITY GREW AND BEGAN TO DEPLETE NATURAL RESOURSES

CHANGING CLIMATE CONTRIBUTED TO EMERGENCE OF NEW PLANTS AND
ANIMALS
SMALL WIDELY DISPERSED SEMI PERMANENT SETTLEMENTSAND NOMADS,
everyone knew a bit of everything

KEY PLANNERS
MAGLEMOSIAN PEOPLE
Inhabitants of the Maglemosian Culture particularly in North Europe.
They were known to constructs Huts made of barks.
Maglemosian, named for a site in Denmark, is found in the Baltic region and N
England. It occurs in the middle of the Mesolithic period. It is theret hat hafted
axes, an improvement over the Paleolithic hand axe, and bone tools are found.

KEY PLANNERS
ERTEBLLE CULTURE
Is the name of a hunter-gatherer and fisher, pottery-making culture dating to the
end of the Mesolithic period.
They built huts, probably brush supported by posts. The huts were in no special
order. Fire pits located outside the huts indicate that most village functions were
performed outdoors, with the dwellings used perhaps for storage and sleeping.

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NEOLITHIC AGE
THE PERIOD FROM THE BEGINNINGS OF AGRICULTURE TO
THE WIDESPREAD USE OF METAL TOOLS: The Bronze Age
and the Iron Age.
THE TIME WHERE CEREAL CULTIVATION AND ANIMAL
DOMESTICATION WAS INTRODUCED.

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NEOLITHIC AGE
IT BEGAN IN THE NEAR EAST BY THE 8TH MILLENNIUM BC.
NEOLITHIC SOCIETIES IN THE NORTHWESTHERN EUROPE LEFT SUCH MONUMENTS AS
HENGES, BARROWS, CHAMBER TOMBS, AND SETTLEMENTS INSIDE CONCENTRIC DITCHES
SPANNED BY CAUSEWAYS

When FARMING began

People can live in one place, they are no longer NOMADIC
People began to live in VILLAGES

FIRST PERMANENT SETTLEMENTS

DEVELOPED IN FERTILE CRESCENT, which included present day Israel, Lebanon,
Jordan, Syria, Northern Iraq, and Western Iran
Village life was becoming more sustainable and common

Significant change that took place with the Neolithic revolution was a dramatic increase in population.

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More food could sustain more people living together.

people needed to build permanent houses for protection and storing food
People began to specialize in certain crafts, social divisions began, laborers/merchants
Gender roles changed. Hunters and gatherers assigned similar roles to men and women. In
the Neolithic revolution, the work that produced food became relegated to men, and
household chores became the womens job. Men came to be the dominant gender in society

KEY PLANNERS
NEOLITHIC PEOPLES IN THE LEVANT, ANATOLIA, SYRIA, NORTHERN
MESOPOTAMIA AND CENTRAL ASIA
They were considered to be great builders, utilizing mud-brick to construct
houses and villages.

NATUFIAN HUNTER-GATHERERS
Belongs to the Epipaleolithic community that existed from 12,500 to 9,500 BC in
the Levant, a region in the Eastern Mediterranean.
They built the City of Jericho

KEY PLANNERS
CARNACOIS
A community beside the Gulf of Morbihanon the south coast of Brittany in the
Morbihan department in north-western France
Inhabitants of Carnac, a famous site composed of more than 3,000 prehistoric
standing stones.

WINDMILL HILL PEOPLE

Named after one of their earthworks on Windmill Hill, near Stonehenge
They are known to be one of the early civilizations that constituted to the
construction of Stone henge

Prehistoric Homes

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Caves
Early humans are often thought of as dwelling in caves, largely because that is where we find traces
of them. The flints they used, the bones they gnawed, even their own bones - these lurk forever in a
cave but get scattered or demolished elsewhere.

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Settlements might have a surrounding stone wall to keep domesticated animals

in and protect the inhabitants from other tribes.
Later settlements have rectangular mud-brick houses where the family lived
together in single or multiple rooms.

Catal Huyuk

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One of the best preserved neolithic towns is Catal Huyuk, covering some 32 acres in southern Turkey.
Here the houses are rectangular, with windows but no doors. They adjoin each other, like cells in a
honeycomb, and the entrance to each is through the roof. The windows are a happy accident, made
possible by the sloping site. Each house projects a little above its neighbour, providing space for the
window.

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Many of the houses excavated in Catal Huyuk are shrines (so many that the small section
of the site so far revealed is thought to be the religious quarter). Their walls are painted
with a wide range of subjects. These include hunting scenes, a picture of vultures setting
about human corpses, and even an elementary landscape

Skara Brae

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On the southern shore of Sandwick, Orkney, was a late Neolithic settlement that was inhabited between 3200 and
2200 BC. Eight prehistoric houses, connected by low covered passageways, have survived. The village was revealed
by a winter storm in 1850.
The eighth building is divided into small areas and may have been used as a workshop as fragments of antler and
bone were found in it.

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Dating from around 3000BC, the earliest houses in the village were
circular
made up of one main room,
containing a central hearth,
with beds set into the walls at either side.
Opposite the main entrance was a shelved stone dresser - a
piece of Stone Age furniture that has come to represent Skara Brae

The ability to acquire food on a regular basis drastically changed life: there was
more stability and order. Life developed according to special patterns; they
had to follow seasons. Religion worshipped reproduction and fertility

EKISTIC ELEMENTS
NETWORKS

NATURE

SHELLS

MAN

SOCIETY

NATURE
VERY INNATE NATURE
EXTREME WEATHER
CONDITIONS
WILD BEASTS AND
ENEMIES

CONDITION OF NATURE
Lots of Essential Resources
Abundant trees, plants and land mass.
Clean source of water such as rivers,
lakes, and streams.
Rich in fruits, edible and wild animals.

Natural Calamities
Rainfalls, snow, earthquake, volcanic
eruption and etc.

MAN
EARLIEST FORM OF
MAN

PALEOLITHIC PEOPLE
MESOLITHIC PEOPLE
NEOLITHIC PEOPLE

PRIMEVAL MAN
NEANDERTHAL HUMANS
& HOMO SAPIENS
Survival
Depends on food to eat.
Shelter
Protection from wild life and
natural calamities.
EVOLUTION
Man evolves from time to
time.

 PALEOLITHIC AGE
Egalitharian Societies
Nomadic' Hunter-Gatherers
Cro-Magnonman and Grimaldiman
MESOLITHIC AGE
Maglemosian people
Erteblle Culture
DIFFERENT PEOPLE
NEOLITHIC AGE
DIFFERENT LOCATIONS
Neolithic peoples in the Levant,
DIFFERENT TIME
Anatolia, Syria, Northern
DIFFERENT CULTURE
Mesopotamia and Central Asia
Natufian Hunter-Gatherers
Carnacois
COMPOSED
Windmill Hill People
OF PEOPLE

SOCIETY

SHELLS
ABUNDANT TREES
AND LANDMASS
CAVES
STONE AND WOOD
DWELLINGS

PROTECTION
WILD BEATS
AND ENEMIES

SHELTER
WEATHER
CONDITIONS

MANs SHELLS
Caves
Oldest and most common type of
dwelling.

Stone & Wood Dwellings

Primitive people starts building
HUTS, TENTS & ETC.
From time to time they use
different kinds of resources around
them to build dwellings and
eventually build houses for other
purposes.

NETWORKS
LANDMASS
RIVERS, STREAMS
AND LAKES
ANIMALS

PRESENT NETWORKS
PATHWAYS
NO roads. Only grasslands & forests.
NO bridges. Passing through rivers, and
lakes.

Transportation
Walking
Riding on animals.

NO Electricity, Plumbing,
Lighting and etc.

MAN

SOCIETY

COMPOSED
OF PEOPLE
EARLIEST FORM
OF MAN

DIFFERENT PEOPLE
DIFFERENT LOCATIONS

PALEOLITHIC PEOPLE
MESOLITHIC PEOPLE
NEOLITHIC PEOPLE

NETWORKS

DIFFERENT TIME
DIFFERENT CULTURE

LANDMASS
RIVERS, STREAMS
AND LAKES
ANIMALS

NATURE
EXTREME
WEATHER
CONDITIONS

VERY INNATE
NATURE

WILD BEASTS
AND ENEMIES

SHELLS
ABUNDANT TREES
AND LANDMASS
CAVES
STONE AND
WOOD
DWELLINGS

PROTECTION
WILD BEATS
AND ENEMIES

SHELTER
WEATHER
CONDITIONS

REFERENCES:
Blinklearning.com
Shoolsprehistory.file.wordpress.com
www.villagedesign.org/vdi
Britannica.com/event/Neolithic-Period
People.okanagan.bc.ca
Google.com