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Early Humans
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Australopithecines• 1st to grow the
opposable thumb
•First humanlike creature to walk upright
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Homo Habilis“Man of Skill”
• Traits– 2.5-1.5 million BC– Brain size = 700 cubic
cm
• Achievements– Made tools from lava
rock– Use tools to cut meat
and crack bones
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Homo Erectus“Upright Man”
• Traits– 1.6 - 30,000 million
BC– More intelligent and
adaptable– Brain size 1,000
Cubic cm
• Achievements– Used intelligence to
develop technology
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Neanderthal• Traits
– 200,000 – 30,000 BC– Brain size 1,450 cubic
cm– Powerfully built– Heavy slanted
eyebrows
• Achievements– First to have ritual
burials– Tried to control and
explain the world
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Cro Magnons
• Traits– Identical skeleton
to modern humans
• Achievements– Studied animals’
habits– Planned their hunts– Advanced skill in
spoken language– Created art
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How it all began…• Homo Sapiens (modern
humans) appeared in Africa 100,000 to 400,000 years ago.
• Then migrated to –Europe –Asia–Australia–The Americas
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How did they find their food?
• Early human societies met their needs by hunting animals and gathering other foods like edible plants.
• These hunters and gatherers were also known as nomads.
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Nomads
• Nomads: People who depend on wild plants and animals to survive. They followed where the food supply went and gathered seeds and nuts.
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HUMAN LIFE IS SPLIT INTO
TWO PERIODS!TO BE CONTINUED…
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Pictures Cited• Slide 1 – www.baylor.edu
• Slide 2 - http://www.classicalvalues.com/NYPair.jpg, www.museumstorecompany.com
• Slide 3 - http://www.geocities.com/latrinchera2000/archivoimagenes/hominizacion/habilis/habilis6.jpg• Slide 4 - http://teachersnetwork.org/powertolearn/web/Prehistory%20Web%20Quest/images/Homo_Erectus.gif
• Slide 5 - www.ugopozzati.it/images/Speranza-Neanderthal.jpg
• Slide 6 - http://www.astrosurf.com/luxorion/Bio/cro-magnon-caverne.jpg
• Slide 7 - http://www.izea.net/images/africa.gif
• Slide 8 - www.rim101.net/pictures/xrm0101b.jpg
• Slide 9 - http://www.princetonfamilycenter.org/images/cavemen.jpg
• Slide 10 - www.preceptaustin.org