first pre- human/human- like creature = hominid; 4 mill. – 2 mill. B.C. “human with ability” – 1 st tool maker – 2.5 mill. – 1.5 mill. B.C. Migrated throughout Eurasia; first to bury dead; 200,000 – 30,000 B.C. Cro-Magnon – identical to modern humans; 40,000-8,000 B.C. Homo Sapien Sapiens = modern humans “human who walks upright” – 1 st out of Africa, 1 st w/fire – 1.6 mill. – 100,000B.C. Human Migration Migration throughout the world spanned over 1.5 million years. Homo sapiens migrated from Africa to Eurasia, Australia, and the Americas Humans adapted to many different environments.

Paleolithic AgeNeolithic Age “Old Stone Age” = 2 million – 8,000 years B.C. “New Stone Age” = 8,000 – 5,000 B.C. hunter-gatherer societies nomadic = migrated in search of food, water, shelter invented 1 st tools including simple weapons learned to make fire lived in small clans – developed oral language created cave art developed agriculture – FARMING! domesticated (tamed) animals made/used advance tools made pottery developed weaving skills Permanent settlements

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Paleolithic AgeNeolithic Age “Old Stone Age” = 2 million – 8,000 years B.C. “New Stone Age” = 8,000 – 5,000 B.C.