Download - Human Origins and Development
8-04HW: Write a summary paragraph on human
origins
Essential Questions: Where do human beings come from?Why do people live together?How have people changed over time?
http://humanorigins.si.edu/evidence/human-evolution-timeline-interactive
• Video from Smithsonian Museum of Natural History: http://humanorigins.si.edu/evidence/genetics/one-species-living-worldwide
Scientific Theory of Human EvolutionAustralapithicus Afarensis• Remains of pre-historic humans from 4 million
years BCE are found only in Africa, • Can walk upright (apes cannot)
Homo Habilis• “Handy Man” 1.5 – 2 million years ago • Hunter-Gatherer• used simple stone tools to kill and skin
animals
Homo Habilis aka “Handy Man”
Homo Habilis or Handy Man
Homo Erectus “Upright Man”• Lived 1.8 million to 200,000 BCE• Traveled out of Africa to Asia and Europe. • Used complex tools like hand axe; clothes from animal skins; uses fire
Homo Erectus
Homo Sapiens: • Modern day humans – replaced Neanderthals and Homo Erectus• 200,000 years ago to today – left SW Africa approximately 70,000 years ago• Used hooks, spears, bow and arrows, rafts, cave paintings, burials
Homo Sapiens
Homo Sapien Neanderthalensis400,000 to 30,000
Years agoCro-Magnon
30,000 – 10,000, only in Europe
MITOCHONDRIAL DNA Evidence for Homo Sapien Movement1/RED= Homo Sapiens 2/Olive Neanderthals3/Early Hominids
Stone Age: • Lasts from 2 million to 3000 BCE, ends with
learning how to make metal tools• Live as Hunter-Gatherers of animals and
plantsFarming Begins aproximately 8000 BCE People slowly begin to grow their own crops
from seeds of wheat and barley.• Settle permanently in 1 area. Domesticate
(train) cattle, pigs, and goats for their meat, milk, skins, and to pull plows.
Fertile Crescent Farming
The Fertile Crescent / Ancient Mesopotamia
EGYPT Israel Syria Iraq – Iran
Called the Middle East Today
Finish Class Work / Homework
Day in the Life of Early MankindChoose 1 Time PeriodWrite a paragraph with 3 Facts orDraw an image with 10 detailed items
(colored pencils when completed for extra credit)
Due Tomorrow
• 6000 BCE Copper• 2700 BCE Bronze (copper and tin)• 2000- 1800 BCE iron usage begins• 1200-1000 BCE Iron usage widespread