1. Studying the Distant Past

2. Questions and Titles
Studying The Distant Past

3. Questions and Titles
Studying The Distant Past
How do archaeologists help us learn about early humans?
Archaeologists study things that people left behind
They dig up old campsites and settlements to find artifacts such as tools, pottery, or weapons.
They study fossils of people who lived millions of years ago during a period known as prehistory, or time before written records.

4. How do archaeologists help us learn about early humans?
Archaeologists study things that people left behind
They dig up old campsites and settlements to find artifacts such as tools, pottery, or weapons.
They study fossils of people who lived millions of years ago during a period known as prehistory, or time before written records.

5. Questions and Titles
Studying The Distant Past
How do archaeologists help us learn about early humans?
Archaeologists study things that people left behind
They dig up old campsites and settlements to find artifacts such as tools, pottery, or weapons.
They study fossils of people who lived millions of years ago.
Fossils are the remains or imprints of living things
Fossils are formed from the harder parts of living things such as bones, teeth, or woody stems.
What are fossils?

6. What are fossils? Fossils are the remains or imprints of living things
Fossils are formed from the harder parts of living things such as bones, teeth, or woody stems.

7. Questions and Titles
Studying The Distant Past
How do archaeologists help us learn about early humans?
Archaeologists study things that people left behind
They dig up old campsites and settlements to find artifacts such as tools, pottery, or weapons.
They study fossils of people who lived millions of years ago.
Fossils are the remains or imprints of living things.
Fossils are formed from the harder parts of living things such as bones, teeth, or woody stems.
What are fossils?
Archaeologists who discovered 1.75 million year old human fossils at a place called Olduvai Gorge in East Africa
As a result, scientists focused their search for the origins of humans in Africa.
Who were Mary and Louis Leakey?

8. Who were Mary and Louis Leakey?
Archaeologists who discovered 1.75 million year old human fossils at a place called Olduvai Gorge in East Africa.
As a result, scientists focused their search for the origins of humans in Africa.

9. Key Terms & People Underline key terms listed below in your notes
Key Terms Definition Prehistory [p. 6] time before written records Archaeology [p. 6] study of human life in the past through examination of things people left behind Artifact [p. 7] objects made and used by humans [ pottery, tools, or weapons] Fossil [p. 7] remains or imprints of living things from millions of years ago Mary & Louis Leakey Archaeologists who discovered human fossils at Olduval Gorge, Tanzania [p. 8]