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Understanding Our Past Chapter 1 Section 1 Understanding Our Past Otzi

Otzi Video (1st What happened to Otzi? Theories?)

How do historians study the past? Artifacts Written records Photographs Films Is every piece of evidence reliable? No Historians have different interpretations and beliefs which can lead to debates What does it mean to be bias?

Anthropology? The study of the origins & development of people Archeology is a field within Anthropology that studies past people & cultures through material remains Analyze artifacts in order to learn

Discoveries in Africa and Beyond Mary and Louis Leakey searched the Olduvai Gorge in Tanzania Why the Olduvai Gorge? Found ancient tools chipped from stone Example of developing technology to survive Later they would find a full skull of a hominid Donald Johanson in 1974 finds evidence of the earliest known hominid “Lucy”

Meet Ida (47 Million Years Old)

Early Hominid Groups First hominids > 7 million yrs ago > Australopithecines Lived in Africa > scientists believe this is where humans originated from Homo Habilis > “handy man” > used tools for a purpose Homo Erectus > “upright man” > larger brains and bones 1st to learn how to use fire 1st hominids to migrate out of Africa > to Asia & Europe Homo Sapiens > group which modern humans belong Includes Neanderthals Earliest modern humans