from the beginning of time
TRANSCRIPT
PRIMATES
HOMO
HOMO HABILIS( THE
TOOL MAKER)HOMO
ERECTUS( THE UPRIGHT MAN)
HOMO SAPIENS( THE WISE MAN)
NEANDERTHALS
CRO-MAGNON
AUSTRALOPITHECUS
Tracing The Beginning Of Human History
Primates are a subgroup of a larger group of mammals.
They have body
hair, a relatively long gestation period following birth,
mammary glands, different types of teeth and the ability to
maintain a constant body temperature.
So, It was during this time i.e. 5.6 million years ago that the higher
primates, including apes and early man, first appeared.
Their hands were different, too. Ape hands were made for climbing
and clinging.
There was a difference between apes and
man.
THE ORIGIN OF EARLY HUMANS
SO,
ACCORDING
TO THE MAP,
WHERE DID
EARLY
HUMANS
ORIGIN?
So it means…we’re all Africans under the skin!!!
But, how do we know
about people who lived so
many millions of years
ago???
Through FOSSILS and ARTIFACTS !
Scientists use many clues to help them put pieces of the past
together. One thing they must know is the difference
between a fossil and an artifact.
Artifacts are
, not remains of
living things.
Fossils are
(plants, animals, people), not things that were
made.
Some fossils and artifacts of early humans
They did not need a boat. The Ice Age was
here! They traveled across giant walkways of
frozen ice, over what later would become vast
rivers and seas.
Ways of obtaining foodEarly humans would have obtained food
through a number of ways such as gathering,
hunting, scavenging and fishing.
would involve collecting plant foods
such as seeds, nuts, berries, fruits and tubers.
probably began later- about 5,00,000
years ago. The earliest clear evidence for the
deliberate, planned hunting and butchery comes
from 2 sites: boxgrove in southern England and
Schoningen in Germany.
was also important as is evident from
the discovery of fish bones at different sites
The large stone boulders were
used to support the sides of the
hut.
It even had a
– fire
provided warmth and light
inside huts and could be used
for cooking. Besides, fire was
used in and could
also be
These tools were found in the
olduvia. The 1st is a chopper. This
is a large stone from which
The 2nd is a hand
axe.
The earliest evidence for making and
use of stone tools comes
It is likely that
the earliest stone tool makers were
the
About 35,000 years ago, improvements in the techniques for killing
animals are evident from the appearance of new kinds of tools such
as The meat thus
obtained was probably processed by removing bones, followed by
Thus, food could be stored for later
consumption.
Oh! My God
what to
do
now!
Among living beings, it is
humans alone that have a
language. some views on
language development are :
1) That hominid language
involved
2) That spoken language was
preceded by vocal but
It has been suggested that the brain of the Homo Habilis
had certain features which would have made it possible for
them to speak. Thus, language may have developed as
early as 2 million years ago! Thus, the evolution of vocal
tract was equally important.
A 3rd suggestion is that language developed around the
same time as art i.e. 40-35,000 years ago.
Hundreds of paintings of animals( done between
30,000 and 12,000 years ago) have been discovered in
the caves of Lascaux and chauvet, both in France
and Altamira in Spain. These include depictions of
bison, horses, ibex, deer, mammoths, rhinos, lions,
bears, panthers, hyenas and owls.
Several explanations have been offered .One is that
because of the importance of hunting, the paintings
of animals were associated with ritual and magic.
Another explanation is that caves
were possibly meeting places for small groups of
people and that
For several million years , humans lived by
hunting wild animals and gathering wild plants.
This led to the
development of farming and pastoralism as a
way of life.