powerpoint for information on Early Humans

1. Warm Up
Archaeologists study past cultures
by locating and analyzing human
remains, settlements, fossils, and
artifacts.
1. What is the difference
between a fossil and an
artifact?
2. What can archaeologists
learn from fossils?
3. Why do you think
archaeologists study
about the past?

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3. • Thought to have started in
Africa
• Have found artifacts,
fossils and human
remains
• Artifacts found in other
areas of the world too but,
those in Africa are the
oldest
• Dated by use of Carbon-
14 Dating
– Measures the amount of
carbon in a artifact and

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Travels of Early
Humans in Africa

5. 1. Australopithecus
2. Homo Habilis
3. Homo Erectus
4. Neanderthal
5. Cro-Magnon
1 2 3
4 5

6. • Lived 4 million to
1million B.C.
• First humanlike
creatures to walk
upright
• Mary Leakey finds
evidence in Africa 1978
• Johanson finds “Lucy”
–Australopithecus
that lived 3.5 million
years ago
–1st full skeleton

7. “Lucy”
This is our evidence of
Australopithecus…theory…

8. • Lived 2.5 million to 1.5
million B.C.
• Habilis means “man of
skill”
• Thought to be the 1st to
make stone tools
– Used the tools to cut
meat
and crack bones
– Evidence shows they
could
cut elephant meat

10. • Lived 1.6 million to
30,000 B.C.
• Remains found in Africa,
Asia and Europe
• Considered to be the
“upright man”
• Developed new ways of
using stone tools
– Digging, scraping, etc.
• First group to control
& create FIRE
• Also thought to create

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12. • These were the common
humans
• Lived 100,000 to 400,000
years ago
• Cro-Magnon man and
Neanderthals are considered
the 1st two early Homo
Sapiens
• Traveled from Africa to
Asia, Europe and the
Americas

14. • Found in Europe
• Considered fully
modern humans
• Created cave art
• Studied animals
and stalked their
prey
• Found in Europe
and SW Asia
• Battled Cro-
Magnons for food
and land
• 1st to have ritual
burials
• Very muscular
build- look like
cavemen

18. • Lived in clans- groups
of people
• Were nomadic- traveled
from place to place
– Followed food sources
(animals)
• Were dependent off wild
plants and animals
• Men were usually
hunters, women
usually gathered
• In constant search for

19. • Oldest found are
from 30,000-40,000
years ago
• Found in caves
across Europe as
well as Africa &
Australia
• Possibly part of
religious
ceremonies

20. Paleolithic cave paintings at Lascaux Cave in southwestern France.

21. Cave paintings at the Laas Geel complex in northern Somalia.

22. 30,000-year-old cave hyena painting found in the Chauvet Cave in France.

23. Cave of Altamira, near Santander, Spain.

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