Hominids 101 WH'2

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Hominids 101 (WH.2)
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What does Prehistory mean?

• Time before humans wrote down or recorded records
  of past events!

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Prehistory

• Paleolithic Era-2.5mya-10,000 B.C.
• Neolithic Era-10,000 B.C.-4000 B.C.

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Australopithecines

• First to walk upright
• 1-4 million years ago
• Southern/Eastern Africa
• Brain 1/3 size of ours

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Homo Habilis

• First to make stone tools
• 1.5-2.5 million years ago
• East Africa
• ½ size of our brain

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Homo Erectus

• First to migrate out of Africa
• First to use fire
• 1.6-30,000 B.C.
• Africa, Asia, and Europe
• 2/3 of our brain size

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Neanderthal

• First to have ritual burials
• 200,000-30,000 B.C.
• Euorpe/Southwest Asia
• Slightly larger brain size
• Powerfully built
• Homo Sapiens?

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Cro-Magnons

• Cave Art/advanced language abilities
• 40,000-8,000 B.C.
• Europe
• Modern human

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Early Humans

• Homo Sapiens emerge in Africa 100,000-400,000
  years ago
• Spread from Africa to Eurasia, Australia, and the
  Americas
• Early humans are hunters and gatherers

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Paleolithic Era

• Nomadic clans
• Make fire
• Stones and bones as tools
• Oral language
• Cave Art

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Neolithic Era

• Agricultural revolution
• Domestication of animals
• Advanced tools
• Weaving skills
• Pottery skills

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Agriculture and its effects

• Steady supply of food
• No longer have to follow food
• Stay in one area longer
• Develop more technology
• Population increase
• Competition for land!

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How do we know all this?

• Archaeologist study evidence like artifacts to
  make interpretations of the past-carbon dating

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Which of the following was a result of agriculture

• fire
• simple tools
• job specialization
• oral communication

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Do Archaeologist study ancient artifacts?

• Yes
• No

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Which of the following would have occurred first?

• writing
• Simple tools
• agriculture
• trading

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Cro Magnons are essentially modern men?

• Yes
• No

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Which of the following occrued during the
Paleolithic Era?

• Weaving skills
• Writing
• Making fire
• Agriculture