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