Early Humans for Kids

Time Period	Name	Quick Glimpse
	Introduction	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	Australopithecus "Southern Ape"	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.
About 2 million BCE	Homo Habilis "Handy Man"	First true humans Stone tools - the first tool-maker Lived in Africa Taller, had a larger brain
About 1.5 million BCE	Homo Erectus "Upright Man"	Made and controlled fire The first hunters Traveled over land bridges from Africa, to begin to populate the world, about 1 million years ago
About 500,000 B.C.	Homo Sapiens "Wise Man" & Neanderthals	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
About 25,000 BCE until about 10,000 BCE	Homo Sapiens Sapiens & "Moderns"	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.
	Links for Kids	Games, Stories, Interactive Activities
	Links for Teachers	Lesson Plans, Additional Resources
	Charles Darwin	Theories of Human Evolution
	Powerpoints	San People of the Kalahari Desert

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