1. Human Origins Day!
Answer the following questions in the Warm-up sections of your binder:
1) What information can we gather by studying human origins?
2) Do we benefit from this information? Why or why not?

2. Class Agenda Essential Questions Human Origins Notes
Human Origins Activity
Geography Project

3. Essential Questions What is an archaeologist? What is carbon dating?
How can we describe Homo erectus?
How can we describe Homo sapiens?
What is Stonehenge?

5. Human Origins in Africa
Where do we come from?

6. Scientists Search for Origins
Archaeologists - scientists who learn about early people by excavating and studying the traces of early settlements

7. Scientists Search for Origins
Evidence
bones
artifacts
tools, jewelry, and other human-made objects

8. Scientists Search for Origins
Lucy - the oldest
human, who was
found in Ethiopia
Carbon Dating - the process of measuring radioactivity to determine the age of objects

9. Scientists Search for Origins
Stonehenge is an example of an archaeological site in England

10. Progress in Paleolithic Age
Homo Habilis - person with ability
Lived million years ago
Appeared in East Africa
Known as the first toolmaker
Made first simple stone tools
hunted and gathered food

11. Progress in Paleolithic Age
Homo Erectus – person who walks upright
1.8 million to 30,000 years ago
Hunters and gatherers
First to walk upright and use fire
Developed more advanced tools
The first hominids to move from Africa
They moved to India, China, and Europe

13. Dawn of Modern Humans

14. Dawn of Modern Humans Neanderthals – first Homo sapiens
Hunters and gatherers
Sophisticated tools
Built temporary shelters
Planned burials of dead
Cared for disabled members

16. Dawn of Modern Humans Cro-Magnons – modern humans
Hunters and gatherers
Long-distance weapons like spear-throwers and the bow and arrow
Planned cooperative big-game hunts
Advanced skill in spoken language
Cave paintings