Human Human OriginsOrigins

SOL Terms for Review

Homo sapiens•Emerged in Africa

between 100,000 and 400,000 years ago

•Migrated from Africa to Eurasia, Australia, and the Americas.

Homo sapiens

Homo sapiens•Thinking man

•Modern man•Nomadic•Began making tools out of stone.

Nomadic•migrate •Moved from place in search of food, water, shelter

•Hunters & Gatherers

Paleolithic•Were nomadic •Invented the first simple tools

weapons•Learned how to make fire•Lived in clans•Developed oral language•Created “cave art”•Old Stone Age

Agricultural Revolution•Women gathering fruits and

vegetables realized they could plant seeds and grow food

•Paleolithic people began farming

Domesticated •process where animals become accustomed to human control.

•animals are tamed for food or work are called livestock or farm animals.

Neolithic•Developed agriculture•Domesticated animals•Used advanced tools•Settled•Made pottery•Developed weaving skills•New Stone Age

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Culture•A people’s unique way of life

•Includes religion, language and government

Artifacts•Human made objects•Examples–Tools–Jewelry–Weapons

Fossils•preserved remains or traces, such as footprints, of animals, plants, and other organisms

•study past cultures by locating and analyzing– human remains–Fossils–artifacts.

Archaeologists

Carbon Dating•Archeologists apply scientific tests

•Discover the dates in which fossils and artifacts originated

•Measure the amount of C 14 remaining in an object

•Construction began in the Stone Age and was completed in the Bronze Age

•Archeological Site in Southern England

Stonehenge

Bronze Age•People began using this stronger material rather than stone

The Start of Cities led to

Ur•Sumerian City State•First city EVER•Neolithic City