1. 4. THE NEOLITHIC REVOLUTION
Chronology: 10000 B.C to 3500 B.C
Appearance of Writing
Beginning of HISTORY
Location: It has its origin in the Middle East
Fertile Crescent
NEOLITHIC REVOLUTION: Important economic and social changes
3. ECONOMY AND SOCIETY
Natural landscape
There was a climate change
increase temperatures-melting of ice
Changes in flora and fauna: tundra became forest
Increase in plant species: barley, wheat, millet, rice, maize, potatoes
Food
Where did they
live?
They became producers:
They became
sedentary
discovered agriculture and farming( domesticated
livestock: sheep, goats…Obtained: meat, milk..)
Appeared bartering ( they produced more than they
needed)
Society
An excess in any
production permitted
people to work in
different activities:
Division of labour
Built permanent
settlements: houses
made with clay
Religion
They had religion beliefs:
-Believed in spirits, worshipped the
dead
-Buried the dead (necropolis under
houses) with personal possessions
6. SKILLS
Stonework
Materials
Pottery
•
•
•
•
Developments:
- They added wooden handles
- New tools: ploughs, scythes, axes
- New materials: marble, granite
• They used to use: vegetable fibres
• They wove them on looms.
• They knew how to make shoes.
• They made pots by hand and baked them in
the fire or in kilns.
• Pots were decorated
• They used watertight containers.
13. • Funeral figures
• Materials: Stone
Bones
• Characteristics
Big round eyes
adorned with
triangles and
lines
Rock paintings
• Painted and
decorated
Idols
Ceramic Pots
ART
• In the open air
or in caves
• Characteristics:
- Schematic
Body and legs
represented by a
vertical line
Head as circle
- People
Hunting scenes,
gathering,
dancing
• Religious
significance
18. NEOLITHIC IN SPAIN
Chronology: It began around 5500 B.C ( later than in the Fertile Crescent)
Way of life: similar to the rest of the world
Specific characteristics
Existence
of cists:
strong
burial cult
They made
Cardial pots:
imprinted
with shells
The most
significant
paintings are
in Levante
They dyed
pots red
