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Early Humans
1. Early Humans
Copyright © Clara Kim 2007. All rights reserved.2. Australopithecines
• 1st to grow theopposable
thumb
•First humanlike
creature to walk
upright
3. 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
4. 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
5. 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
6. Cro Magnons
• Traits– Identical skeleton
to modern humans
• Achievements
– Studied animals’
habits
– Planned their hunts
– Advanced skill in
spoken language
– Created art
7. How it all began…
• Homo Sapiens (modernhumans) appeared in
Africa 100,000 to
400,000 years ago.
• Then migrated to
–Europe
–Asia
–Australia
–The Americas
8. How did they find their food?
• Early human societiesmet their needs by
hunting animals and
gathering other foods
like edible plants.
• These hunters and
gatherers were also
known as nomads.
9. Nomads
• Nomads: People who depend on wildplants and animals to survive. They
followed where the food supply went
and gathered seeds and nuts.
10. HUMAN LIFE IS SPLIT INTO
TWO PERIODS!TO BE CONTINUED…
11. 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
12. Road to the Agricultural Revolution
Paleolithic to Neolithic EraCopyright © Clara Kim 2007. All rights reserved.
13.
14. Prehistory
• Prehistoric or Prehistory – refersto the time before the
advancement of writing.
15. Paleolithic Era
• Paleolithic Eraalso means Old
Stone Age.
• The Paleolithic
or old stone age
began 2 million
years go.
16. Paleolithic Era
• Homo Sapiens duringthis period were:
– Nomads
– The first to make
simple tools and
weapons.
– Make cave art
– Master the use of Fire.
– Develop a language
– Living in clans
17. Neolithic Era
• Neolithic Era alsomeans the new
• stone age.
Homo Sapiens during
this period:
• Developed agriculture
• Domesticated animals
• Used advanced tools like spears
• Developed weaving skills
18. The Agricultural Revolution
• The Neolithic Age issometimes called
the Agricultural Age
• Nomads turned to
Farmers
• They learned to
domesticate (tame)
animals
• They learned to farm
their food
19. What did it all lead to?
• All of these developments led to therise of settlements and agriculture.
• This advanced homo sapiens towards
civilization.
20. Pictures Cited
Slide 2 - http://cavemanchemistry.com/ch120slides/graphics/cartoon/7.png
Slide 3 - http://raconter.net/img/write.jpg
Slide 4 - http://www.accd.edu/sac/vat/arthistory/arts1303/Paleohorse3.jpg
Slide 5 - http://youth.crosspointelive.org/uploaded_images/bonfire-748725.jpg
Slide 6 - http://www.svf.uib.no/sfu/blombos/Artefact_Review1_Images/images/Bigbifacials-&-scrapers.jpg
Slide 7 - clipart
Slide 8 - http://www.sewerhistory.org/images/w/wam/moh_wam14.jpg