Hominids and Hunter-Gatherers

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Hominids and Hunter-Gatherers
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Investigating prehistory

• Historians rely on written records- Did hominids
  write?
• Archaeologists- study/analyze material remains
  like tools, pottery, weapons, clothing, jewelry
• Anthropologists- study bones of our ancestors and
  their culture (way of life, beliefs, values,
  practices)

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Early Hominids

• Australopithecus- 4 million years BC
• S/E Africa
• 500 cm³ brain size
• First hominid to walk upright
• Homo Habilis- handy man, 2.5 million years BC
• 700 cm³ brain size
• E Africa
• First to make stone tools

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Early Hominids

• Homo Erectus- upright man, 1.6 million years BC
• Africa, Asia, Europe
• 1,000 cm³ brain size
• First to ???
• Neanderthal- 200,000-30,000 BC, Europe and SW
  Asia, 1,450 cm³ brain, first to have ritual
  burials

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Prehistory

• Most of our existence is prehistoric
• Paleolithic Age-Old Stone Age- hunters and
  gatherers.
• Neolithic Age-New Stone Age-farmers and herders.

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Early Hominids

• Cro-Magnon- Homo Sapiens- 40,000 (or 150,000) to
  8,000 BC
• Europe
• Brain size 1,400 cm³ brain size
• Fully modern humans
• First to create art, more organized

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• http//www.hunterian.gla.ac.uk/collections/museum/
  hominid/australopithicus/australopithicus.shtml

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Hunter-Gatherers

• Mode of Production- the way goods and services
  are produced, used, and traded
• Hunter-Gatherers- nomads who obtained food,
  clothes, shelter from plants and animals

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The Bering Strait today
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Land Bridge quicktime

• beringlandbridge1l.mov

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Hunter-Gatherers

• They hunted wooly mammoths, elk, reindeer, musk
  oxen, wooly rhinos, saber-toothed tigers, etc
• They hunted with stone spear tips called Clovis
  points

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Clovis points
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Stone Axe
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Folsom Point
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Darts and Fish hook
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Animals
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Animals
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Animals
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Animals
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Shelter
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Shelter
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