Human Migration

Interactive map!

Before we see what they did, we have to know where they went!

http://bradshawfoundation.com/journey/

Elizabeth

In the beginning…

In the beginning, Africa, homo sapiens lived in hunting and gathering societies, which were of social equality.

Used stone and bone tools

Evidence of possible trade with other groups

When they moved, they moved along the

coast because it was easier to find food

and survive that way.

This was called “beach combing”.

Lauren

Into Eurasia

New hunting habits like using stone tools to open oysters

New technologies such as: needles, weavings, baskets

Cave paintings mark the first real signs of religion. Lots of theories as to what they were for (depends on your perspective) : Hunting magic (prayer for a good hunt) Reincarnation Rite of passage for young men

Dylan

Into Australia

BOATS!!!

Many new languages migrated to Australia

Stayed gatherers and hunters for a very long time (long after the rest of the world switched over to agriculture-based societies)

Evidence of many ceremonies, stories, and dances

Tools of stone and wood

Evan

Into the Americas

Theory: most moved into America on the Bering Strait (ice bridge) and down the west coast

Coincided with end of ice age (extinction of many large mammals), so a lot of the first civilization there died off.

Very little is known about migration into North America

Much harder to survive in the Americas, so evidence of a certain time period that they moved here is scattered and not at all exact

Lauren

Into the Pacific

MORE BOATS!!!

Spoke Austronesian languages

First to migrate and take agriculture with them (after the ice age)

Started building stationary civilizations and cities, etc.

Negative impacts on the environment like deforestation, especially Easter Islands

Dylan

And then most of the world was inhabited… But migrations never stopped.