The Prehistoric Period

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The Prehistoric Period

• I. Pre-Humans
• 1. Human-like
• 2. 3 million years ago
• 3. Bones found in Africa
• a. Ethiopia
• b. Kenya

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II. Neanderthals

• 1. Pre-Humans
• 2. Europe, Asia Africa
• 3. 150,000-1.5 million years ago
• a. Ice Age
• b. Wooly Mammoths
• 4. When Ice melted
• a. Wooly Mammoths died
• b. Neanderthals unable to adjust
• -extinction

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III. Cro-Magnons

• 1. Europe, Asia Africa
• 2. 50,000-30,000 years ago
• 3. Primal tools
• 4. Cave paintings

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IV. Modern Humans

• 1. 37,000 years ago-today
• Thought of the day
• What physical, emotional intellectual traits
  distinguish
• human beings from other mammals?