1. The Dawn of the Neolithic Age
AKA: The New Stone Age

2. The End of Hunting and Gathering
• Hunting and gathering (1) DID
NOT provide a stable food supply.
• Over thousands of years, humans
figured out to (2) PLANT seeds
instead of gathering them.
• They learned which seeds
produced the most crops and
which land worked best.
• The discovery of farming marks
the beginning of the (3)
NEOLITHIC AGE!! (New Stone

3. The Neolithic Age
• The Neolithic or New Stone Age
began around the year (4) 8000 BC
and lasted until (5) 3000 BC.
• It is also called the (6) NEW STONE
AGE because humans were making
advanced stone tools.
• Farming developed around the world
(6) SEPARATELY including Europe,
Africa, Asia and the Americas.

4. Domestication
• Humans also learned to (7)
DOMESTICATE animals, or to
tame animals for human use
• They raised sheep, goats and
cattle for (8) MEAT.
• They got (9) MILK from both cattle
and goats.
• Animals were used to carry goods
and to pull plows and carts.

5. The Farming Revolution
• Scientists call these changes the
(10) FARMING REVOLUTION.
• Some historians call this revolution
the most important event in human
history!!!
• Why?
▫ (11) It created a stable food supply.
• Humans could now create
permanent shelters and form larger
communities.
• These communities grew into the