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2. EQ: How did hominids adapt to survive?
Unit: Stone Ages
Topic:
Hominids of the Stone Age
EQ: How did hominids adapt to survive?

4. Historians call the time before there was writing prehistory.
I. The Stone Age
Historians call the time before there was writing prehistory.
According to scientists, the Earth is approximately 4.5 billion years old. Humans have lived on this planet for about 4 million years and out of those 4 million years, writing was not invented until about 5,000 years ago. Historians call the time before there was writing prehistory. That’s almost 4 millions years of human existence that is unknown to us! To study prehistory, historians rely on the work of archeologists and the artifacts that they dig up and try our best to figure out what happened.

5. Paleolithic period Mesolithic period Neolithic period I. The Stone Age
2.5 MYA - 300,000 BCE
Mesolithic period
300, ,000 BCE
Neolithic period
10, ,000 BCE
The artifacts that archeologists have excavated from this time period were primarily made of stone, which is how the Stone Ages were named. The Stone Age is divided into three cultural periods by archeologists: Paleolithic, Mesolithic, and Neolithic. Lithic means stone in Latin.

6. Hominids are early ancestors of humans.
II. Paleolithic Era
Hominids are early ancestors of humans.
Hominids are two-footed mammals, which makes them bipeds.
4 millions years ago our planet was teeming with life. It was during this time that the higher primates, including apes and early humans, appeared. There was a difference between apes and humans. Early human like hominids could stand upright, apes could not. Hominids are early ancestors of humans. They were bipeds which meant that they could walk upright on two feet.

7. What happened to the other hominids?
What role did they play in our story of survival?
As early as 4 million years ago, multiple species of hominids inhabited the earth. Many of them co-existed. Today there is just one. Us: Homo sapiens. What happened to the other hominids. What role did they play in our story of survival?

9. 4 million years ago (MYA)
III. Australopithecus
“Southern ape”
4 million years ago (MYA)
Lived in Africa
Stood upright and walked on two legs (biped)
Brain was about ⅓ the size of modern humans

10. He named her Lucy (after the Beatles song). Quick Facts: 20 years old
III. Australopithecus
In 1974, the first Australopithecus was found in East Africa by Donald Johanson.
He named her Lucy (after the Beatles song).
Quick Facts:
20 years old
Biped
3 feet tall
Long arms
Large head

11. Less Is More Can two legs be better than four?
Pick two students (biped and not) to play simon says
Run
Carry an item
Do actions while carrying items
Reach for objects
Hide
Dogde

12. Used early stone tools for chopping and scraping
IV. Homo habilis
“Handy man”
Appeared 2.4 MYA
Lived in Africa
Used early stone tools for chopping and scraping
Brain was about ½ the size of modern humans

13. Mary and Louis Leakey discovered Homo habilis bones in Africa in 1959.
IV. Homo habilis
Mary and Louis Leakey discovered Homo habilis bones in Africa in 1959.
The first hominids to use and create tools.
Closely related to humans

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15. How to tell a rock from a stone tool

16. Rock or Stone Tool?
Stone tool

17. Rock or Stone Tool?
rock

18. Rock or Stone Tool?
Stone tool

19. Rock or Stone Tool?
rock

20. Rock or Stone Tool?
THE ROCK!!!

21. Lived in Africa, Asia, and Europe
V. Homo erectus
“Upright man”
Appeared 2 MYA
Lived in Africa, Asia, and Europe
Use more advanced tools like the hand axe.
Built huts
Controlled fire
Wore animals skin
The first Homo erectus remains were found in 1891, before Lucy and Handy Man. The people who found the remains saw that this species stood upright and named it Homo erectus “upright man”

22. V. Homo erectus
The first Homo erectus remains were found in 1891, before Lucy and Handy Man. The people who found the remains saw that this species stood upright and named it Homo erectus “upright man”

23. Think-Pair-Share
Homo erectus were the first hominids to be found outside of Africa.
Artifacts were found that points to their ability to control fire, hunt animals, build shelters, and make advanced tools.
What can we infer from these two things?

24. What about cavemen?

25. VI. Homo neanderthalensis

26. VI. Homo neanderthalensis
400, ,000 YA
Found in Europe in 1856
Shorter, stockier, stronger
First hominids to hunt in groups
First hominids to care for the injured and bury their dead
Co-existed with humans for 10,000 years

27. Migrated around the world
VII. Homo sapiens
“Wise man”
Appeared 200,000 YA
Migrated around the world
Learned to create fire and use a wide variety of tools
Developed language
Same species as modern humans (that’s us!)