4. Some more features:
• Paleolithic societies made initial shift from hunting and gathering to
agriculture.
• Initially change from nomadic hunter-gatherer to agriculturalist took place in
Middle East.
• Productive animals: Sheep, goats and Crops wheat and barely.
• Houses in Neolithic village were normally all the same size and were built on
the same plan.
5. Two larger Neolithic
settlements
• 1. One was found at Catal Huyuk, in a fertile
agricultural region about 150 miles south of
Ankara, (capital, Turkey) consist of over 15 acres
with population of over 6000 people.
6. 2. The site of Jericho ( City
in Palestine)
• An oasis around a spring of Dead Sea, it consist
of 8 to 10 acres, surrounded by a massive stone
walls.
7. Activity: Focus on writing
• Instruction: Write a paragraph on each settlement of Neolithic Age.
Paragraph must contain 5 to 6 lines with sufficient information.
