1. Early Humans
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2. Main Idea and connection
Paleolithic people adapted to their environment and invented many tools to help them survive.
What do you view as the greatest human achievement?

3. Frozen Body Alps Frozen Body No Written Records Iceman
Covered for thousands of years
Clothing, tools and well preserved body give clues to life and death
Lived 5,000 years ago about 3,000BC
Made of stitched animal skins
Community skilled in sewing
Copper Ax
Copper first metal used by europeans- 4,000 BC
No Written Records
Able to determine from items found
Ten years later found arrowhead buried in chest

5. History History is: Story of humans in the past Historians
What people did and what happened to them
Historians
Study and write about the human past.
Define history as
Period of time that began after people learned to write (5.500 years ago)
Pre-History= before history (writing)

6. Tools of discovery We learn about people by what they left behind
Anthropologists- focus on human society
Study how humans developed and how they related to one another
Archeologist- hunt for evidence buried in the ground
Artifacts- weapons, tools and other things
Fossils- traces of plants or animals preserved in rock
Size of spear made from flint = type of game
Bigger= larger and heavier

7. Written and Oral History
Study written record of human life and accomplishments
Wars, religion, rulers
Compare against other societies at the same time
Oral Tradition
Stories passed down by word of mouth
Family history, stories of heroes or events of past
Not always historically accurate
Myths, legends

8. Louis and Mary Leakey British archaeologists
Son Richard
Most famous fossil hunters
Convinced scientists and anthropologists
Human ancestors first lived in East Africa Millions of years ago

9. Discovery Digging in Olduvai Gorge in Tanzania Dirt deep and old
Layers of dirt dating back 2 million years
1940’s and 50’s
Louis and Mary found hominids
Creatures walked on two legs
Humans only huminids alive today
1959
Mary discovered skull of creature 2 million years old
Dated hominids to that period
1974 Donald Johnson
Chicago
Entire skeleton of a female hominid in Ethiopia

10. Lucy Hominid discovered called Lucy Disproved previous ideas
3 million years old
Disproved previous ideas
Thought hominids lived in open plains
Used tools to hunt, thought they had to walk to be able to carry weapons
Lucy showed hominids walked long before tools

11. Tim White 1992 First humans spread out of Africa From California
4.4 million year old Hominid
Showed hominid walked in Africa’s jungles
First humans spread out of Africa
In search of food and new places to live