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Title: The Peopling of the World


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The Peopling of the World
  • Prehistory 2500 BCE

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1.1 Human Origins in Africa
  • How do we know things without written records?
  • Scientific clues
  • Excavating traces of early settlements
  • Bones, fossils
  • Artifacts
  • Def human made objects (i.e. tools, jewelry)
  • Carbon and potassium dating (issues?)
  • Anthropologists people who study culture,
    humanity

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Hominids
  • Def humans and other creatures
  • Name given to very early humans
  • Family Hominidae
  • Means great apes chimps, gorillas, orangutans
  • Walk upright
  • Footprints
  • much like ours today
  • Opposable thumbs
  • Imagine life without them!

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Human Development
  • Homo habilis man of skill
  • 2.5 million years ago
  • May have used tools
  • Homo erectus upright man
  • 1.6 million years ago
  • More intelligent
  • Developed technology
  • 1st to migrate from Africa
  • 1st to use fire
  • May have had spoken language

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Technology
  • Def ways of applying knowledge, tools, and
    inventions to meet needs

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Homo sapiens (wise man)
  • Scientific classification
  • Kingdom
  • Animalia
  • Phylum
  • Chordata
  • Class
  • Mammalia
  • Order
  • Primates
  • Family
  • Hominidae
  • Genus
  • Homo
  • Species
  • H. sapiens
  • Subspecies
  • H. s. sapiens
  • Trinomial name
  • Homo sapiens sapiens

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The Stone Age
  • Why is it called the Stone Age?
  • Paleolithic Age (Old Stone Age)
  • 2.5 million years to 8000 BCE
  • Period of the last ice age
  • i.e. last time the glaciers advanced
  • Neolithic Age (New Stone Age)
  • 8000 3000 BCE
  • Change agriculture (will talk about in 1.2)

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Neanderthals
  • Early Homo sapiens
  • NOT stereotypical cave men
  • Vanished around 30,000 years ago
  • Most likely because they were replaced by.

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Cro-Magnons
  • 40,000 years ago they emerge
  • Prehistoric humans (Homo sapiens)
  • Made many useful tools
  • More effective hunters
  • Populations grew faster with more food

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The Search Continues
  • Historians, archaeologists, anthropologists,
    other scientists and continuously studying and
    uncovering new information about
    early/prehistoric humans
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