AIM: How did early humans survive? DO NOW: How do we know people lived thousands of years ago?? HW: Using the notes, create a drawing of a typical day of life in the Paleolithic Age.
TRACING THE MIGRATION (MOVEMENT) OF EARLY HUMANS ACCORDING TO THE MAP, WHERE DID EARLY HUMANS ORIGIN? AFRICA
LOUIS & MARY LEAKEY ( ) - Kenyan archaeologists who began looking for early human remains in East Africa. They found many tools, bones & other artifacts. *NOTES* DONALD JOHANSON - (1974) archaeologist who found “Lucy”, a part of an early human skeleton in Ethiopia
*NOTES* STANDARDS FOR BEING HUMAN: 1. 90cc skull size 2. Upright vertebrate 3. Thumb for tool making
WHAT ARE THESE IMAGES & WHAT DO THEY TELL US ABOUT EARLY HUMANS?
*NOTES* Paleolithic Era (Old Stone Age) 2 million B.C. - 10,000 B.C. 1.Hunting & gathering societies 2.Nomads- people who travel from place to place in constant search of food and water 3.People traveled in small groups 4.Simple tools/weapons made of stone, bone & wood 5.Use of clothes & fire 6.Cave paintings found of animals 7.Animism- religion which involves worshipping spirits in nature