Chapter 1 The Peopling of the World

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Chapter 1 The Peopling of the World

• Prehistory 2500 B.C.

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Human Origins in Africa

• Divisions of Time
• Prehistoric Times end around 5000 BCE (when man
  began to write) and go back 5 million years or
  more
• Ancient history is from 5000 BCE to AD 500 (the
  fall of the Roman Empire)
• Medieval history AD 500 to AD 1500 (discovery
  of the New World by Christopher Columbus)
• A.D. means Anno Domini or in the year of our
  Lord
• B.C. means before Christ
• Other scholars use the secular terminology of
  B.C.E. or Before the Common Era and C.E. or
  Common Era

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Early Man

• Hominids human beings and humanlike creatures
  who preceded them
• 1. Java and Peking Man named after first
  discovery places
• 2. Neanderthal discovered in Neander Valley in
  German. Lived _at_ 80,000 to 40,000 B.C.E. Thought
  to be dimwitted but learned how to use fire and
  made stone tools and weapons. Apparent belief in
  afterlife because they buried their dead with
  tools and weapons
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• 3. Cro Magnon Man named after place in France
  where they were first discovered. Taller, more
  intelligent. Made better tools and weapons.
  Noted for painting walls of caves. Looked like
  modern man.

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Migration of Early Man
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Neanderthal Man Duck Dynasty Ancestors?
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Cro Magnon Man da Vincis Grandpa?
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Mary and Louis Leakey - Archaeologists

• Worked in Tanzania at the Olduvai Gorge
• Mary Leakey 1978 found footprints that were
  about 3.5 million years old

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Lascaux Cave
http//www.lascaux.culture.fr/
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Lucy

• 1974 Donald Johanson discovered Lucy in
  Ethiopia 3.5 million years old hominid
• Most nearly complete skeleton of any erect
  walking pre-human found up to that time. She was
  3 ½ feet tall and weighed 60 pounds.

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Lucy
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Prehistoric Times

• Prehistory is divided into periods according to
  the tools people used.
• Old Stone Age Paleolithic
• Tools were of stone, wood, bone
• Lasted til about 10,000 BCE
• 99 of earths history spent in Old Stone Age
• People were nomads lived in small groups of 20
  to 60
• Hunted and gathered wild plants

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Hand Ax
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What do you think these are?
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• Mesolithic Middle Stone Age 10,000 to 8,000 BCE
• Domestication of animals and beginning of a more
  settled existence
• Bows, arrows, stone axes with handles

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Neolithic New Stone Age 8000 to 3000 BCE

• Neolithic Revolution switch from food hunting
  to food producing
• Farming Permanent Settlements
• More Advanced Technology

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Why would people give up an easier lifestyle for
a harder one?
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• Early farming methods slash and burn
• Locations Jarmo and Catal Huyuk