1. Early Humans Visual Vocabulary

2. HOMINID
An early ancestor of humans that developed in Africa & moved around the world

3. HUNTER-GATHERERS
Early humans who hunt animals and gather wild plants, seeds, fruits, and nuts to survive.

4. CONSTANTLY MOVING FROM PLACE TO PLACE TO PROVIDE FOR YOUR BASIC NEEDS
NOMADIC LIFESTYLE
CONSTANTLY MOVING FROM PLACE TO PLACE TO PROVIDE FOR YOUR BASIC NEEDS
FOOD, SHELTER, WATER

5. PALEO= OLD LITHIC= STONE
PALEOLITHIC ERA
PALEO= OLD LITHIC= STONE
Known as the old stone age. Early Humans used stone tools and moved to survive.

6. NEOLITHIC ERA NEO= NEW LITHIC= STONE
Known as the new stone age. Early humans stopped moving and started farming

7. ICE AGE
A time of climate change when huge ice glaciers covered the Earth’s surface allowing the early humans to travel over the frozen water to new land.

8. ARCHAEOLOGIST
A scientist who studies prehistoric people by analyzing artifacts, inscriptions, and monuments from the past

9. cave paintings
A FORM OF COMMUNICATION USED DURING A TIME OF NO SPOKEN LANGUAGE. USED TO TELL STORIES, PASS ALONG INFORMATION, OR TRACK ANIMALS.

10. LAND BRIDGE
A strip of land that connects two continents together that aren’t normally connected

11. Mankind The Story of All of Us: The Earliest Humans | History
EARLY ANCESTORS: What connects all men to our earliest ancestors? ____________________________________ The Y Chromosome Adam lived between ____________ and ________________ years ago. Y Chromosome Adam probably lived in a small community consisting of __________ to _______ people in the woodlands or grasslands of _______________________ or __________________________. The ability to sweat, get rid of heat, and move in the midday sun becomes a ____________________ advantage.

12. MIGRATING:
People have this idea that early humans sat up one day and said: “We’re going to move to ____________, we’re going to move to _____________________, but that’s not quite what happened.”
In reality, early humans moved slowly from one geographic _______________ to another.
Early humans left Africa around ____________________ years ago, and the move took ______________________ of years.
Early humans made it to Europe around __________________ years ago, and in the middle of the _________ Age.

13. True or False: it was very difficult for early Homo Sapiens to survive and be successful due to other species threatening their survival. __________________
Homo Sapiens are the most _____________________ and intelligent.
Reaction : [Complete in 5 sentences] Would you want to travel back and time and trade lives for a day with an early human to experience what their life was like? Why or why not?