Who's Who of Early Man
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Who's Who of Early Man
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Cheat Sheet: Who's Who of Early Man
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| Did man live at the same time as dinosaurs? What is a hominid? What is an artifact? What is a fossil? Find out here! | ||
| About 3 million BCE |
Human-like hominids Lucy Basic traits of humans. Special because he could stand up. Main physical difference between early man and apes are the hands. |
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First true humans Stone tools - the first tool-maker Lived in Africa Taller, had a larger brain |
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| About 1.5 million BCE |
Made and controlled fire The first hunters Traveled over land bridges from Africa, to begin to populate the world, about 1 million years ago |
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| About 500,000 B.C. |
Neanderthals Buried their dead with
ceremony. Stone-tipped spears, bone needles, bone fish hooks, sewed their clothes from animal skins, warm boots Buried their dead with ceremony. Stone-tipped spears, bone needles, bone fish hooks, sewed their clothes from animal skins, warm boots |
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Homo Sapiens Sapiens &
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Cave Paintings Cro-Magnon & "Moderns" Bow and arrows, well constructed huts with central hearths for fires; necklaces & pendants, cave art, little statues made from ivory, antler, bone; tools and weapons for hunting and fishing, oil lamps. Used honey to sweeten food. End of the last Ice Age about 10,000 years ago. |
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| San People of the Kalahari Desert |
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