Early Humans
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stricj10
Last updated 6 years ago
Discipline:
Social Studies Subject:
Prehistory
Grade:
6


Homo Erectus"Upright Man"
Early Humans
Learning about the Evolution of Humans
Time Line
3 Million BCE
"Southern Ape" & Lucy
- First true humans- First tool maker w/ stone tools- Lived in Africa- Taller, had a larger brain
- Made and controlled fire- First hunters- Traveled over land bridges from Africa to begin to populate the world
- Cave paintings- Well constructed huts with central hearth for fires- Necklaces and pendants- Statues made from ivory, antler, bone- Tools and weapons for hunting and fishing- Oil lamps- Used honey to sweeten food- End of the last Ice Age, approx. 10,000 years ago
- Neanderthals buried their dead with ceremony- Stone-tipped spears, bone needles, bone fish hooks, sewed their clothes from animal skins, warm boots
-Basic traits of humans - Walked on two legs- Main physical difference between early man and apes are the hands.
2 Million BCE
"Handy Man"
1.5 Million BCE
"Upright Man"
500,000 BCE
25,000-10,000 BCE
"Wise Man" & Neanderthals
"Moderns" & Cro-Magnon
Homo Habilis"Handy Man"
Home Sapiens"Wise Man" & Neanderthals
Homo Sapiens Sapiens & "Moderns"
AustralopithecusAfarensis"Southern Ape"
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