Aspect of life Lifestyle Food Tools/Weapons A. Comparison Chart Students will describe and summarize their understanding of the changes that took place during the broad-spectrum revolution. For instructions, fill out the chart below by comparing how early humans carried out them lives in the lithic or stone-age revolutions:
Aspect of life Paleolithic Neolithic
1.Lifestyle
2.Food
3.Tools/weapons
4.Important
considerations
5. Lifestyle
Answers & Comments
Answer:
hunter-gatherers
cultivators, animal herders
1. Food Hunting, gathering, fishing Cereal crops and animal husbandry
2. Tools/Weapons Stone tools (e.g. blades, hammers, needles), spears, boomerangs, bows and arrows Metal tools (e.g. axes, knives, ploughs), swords, guns
3. Important considerations Manual labor, subsistence methods Developing technology, ownership of land
4. Commerce None or limited Trading goods and services
5. Social Structure Nomadic, egalitarian-based communities. Chiefdoms and hierarchical organizations with stronger political and religious control.