Early Humans
Why did early humans walk differently than we do?
Bones were heavier
The first humans lived during what period of history?
Stone Age
Did early people have religon?
Yes, Animism
Tribal society was gone and what appeared?
Leaders (military, religious, monarchies, etc.)
How did tools/weapons change over time?
Tools/weapons were made of bone, then of stone, then of copper, then tin was added to create bronze tools
Early ancestors of humans are called...
Hominids
The Stone Age can be divided into two sections. What are they?
Paleolithic Era (Old Stone Age) & Neolithic Era (New Stone Age)
How did early people express themselves? How do we know this?
Cave painting/art, some have been found in caves around the world
People now had their own houses, own farms, own clothes because the Neolithic Era bought in...
ownership
How did people change over time?
People were first nomadic, they followed their food as hunter-gathers then they formed permanent houses in villages and farmed as well as hunted for food.
They also draped clothing over them then they stitched it together over time.
Many scientists think that modern humans appeared how long ago and where?
200,000 years ago in Africa
The two most important developments of the Paleolithic Era are...
fire and language
In the Paleolithic Era, how did people wear clothing?
They draped animal skins over their heads to cover themselves.
New things aren't always good..._______ appeared and we still have them today
diseases
This invention helped early people in various different ways...
fire
-they cooked their food, used it for heat, used it for safety, and would eventually use it to make tools and weapons.
In East African this couple found bones of early human ancestors
Mary and Louis Leakey
Early human societies called what would use these stone weapons and tools.
Hunter-Gathers
In the Neolithic Era, how did people wear clothing?
They would sew animal skins together to create clothing.
Families could grow now that they weren't nomadic...this means the ___________ increased.
population
Where did these early villages form? What do we call them?
near fields and water sources
River Valley Civilizations
What was the name given to the incomplete skeleton found by Donald Johanson?
Lucy
The period is known as the Stone Age because tools were made of stone. How did they do this?
People would hit stones together or would hit animal anters against stones. These stones would break and be shaped into weapons or tools. Later wooden handles were attached.
What is the correct term for how humans fit into the environment around them. Example: They had to ____ to cold weather during the Ice Age.
adapt/adapting/adaptation
Agricultural Revolution
Eventually everyone didn't need to be a farmers and they could have a different job, what is this called?
Job Specialization/Specialization