1. Human Origins

2. Who Found Early People?
Archaeologists = excavate and study traces of early settlements
Analyze artifacts (jewelry, tools, and other human-made objects)
Anthropologists = study culture
What is culture?
Re-create picture of every day life
Paleontologists = study fossils

3. Common Practices
Shared Understandings
Social Organization
What people eat
Clothing
Sports
Tools/Technology
Social Customs
Work
Language
Symbols
Religious Beliefs
Values
The Arts
Political Beliefs
Family
Caste/Class Structure
Relationship between individual and community
Government
Economic System
View of Authority

4. And They Were Discovered
Mary Leakey
Archaeologist who found prehistoric footprints that resembled modern day human tracks
Found in Tanzania
Created by australopithecines (walked upright -> aka hominid)
Why is walking upright important?
Donald Johanson
Anthropologist who found a complete skeleton of an adult female hominid (named it Lucy) in Ethiopia
Oldest hominid found to date
Hominids had opposing thumbs (why is this important)

5. The Stone Age Invention of tools, fire, development of language, etc.
Broken up into two stages
Paleolithic Age
Earlier stage of the Stone Age (lasted the longest)
Neolithic Age
Latter stage -> learned to polish tools, make pottery, grow crops, raise animals, etc.

6. Hominid Development Homo Habilis (man of skill/handy man)
Made tools of lava rock
Homo Erectus (upright man)
Used intelligence to develop technology
Became skillful hunters
Invented tools for digging, cutting, etc.
First to use fire (uses?)
Development of language
Hunting, naming objects, exchanged ideas, etc.

7. Hominid Development Homo Sapiens (wise man) Modern humans
Larger brains then homo erectus
Neanderthals
Powerfully built people with slanted brows and thick bones
Developed religious beliefs/performed rituals (funerals)
Held belief there was a world beyond the grave
Cro-Magnons
Identical to modern humans
Planned hunts (studied animal behavior)
Advanced spoken language