The Peopling of the World

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The Peopling of the World

• Prehistory 2500 BCE

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1.1 Human Origins in Africa

• How do we know things without written records?
• Scientific clues
• Excavating traces of early settlements
• Bones, fossils
• Artifacts
• Def human made objects (i.e. tools, jewelry)
• Carbon and potassium dating (issues?)
• Anthropologists people who study culture,
  humanity

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Hominids

• Def humans and other creatures
• Name given to very early humans
• Family Hominidae
• Means great apes chimps, gorillas, orangutans
  
• Walk upright
• Footprints
• much like ours today
• Opposable thumbs
• Imagine life without them!

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Human Development

• Homo habilis man of skill
• 2.5 million years ago
• May have used tools
• Homo erectus upright man
• 1.6 million years ago
• More intelligent
• Developed technology
• 1st to migrate from Africa
• 1st to use fire
• May have had spoken language

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Technology

• Def ways of applying knowledge, tools, and
  inventions to meet needs

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Homo sapiens (wise man)

• Scientific classification
• Kingdom
• Animalia
• Phylum
• Chordata
• Class
• Mammalia
• Order
• Primates
• Family
• Hominidae

• Genus
• Homo
• Species
• H. sapiens
• Subspecies
• H. s. sapiens
• Trinomial name
• Homo sapiens sapiens

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The Stone Age

• Why is it called the Stone Age?
• Paleolithic Age (Old Stone Age)
• 2.5 million years to 8000 BCE
• Period of the last ice age
• i.e. last time the glaciers advanced
• Neolithic Age (New Stone Age)
• 8000 3000 BCE
• Change agriculture (will talk about in 1.2)

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Neanderthals

• Early Homo sapiens
• NOT stereotypical cave men
• Vanished around 30,000 years ago
• Most likely because they were replaced by.

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Cro-Magnons

• 40,000 years ago they emerge
• Prehistoric humans (Homo sapiens)
• Made many useful tools
• More effective hunters
• Populations grew faster with more food

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The Search Continues

• Historians, archaeologists, anthropologists,
  other scientists and continuously studying and
  uncovering new information about
  early/prehistoric humans