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Introduction

Did man live at the same time as dinosaurs? What is a hominid? What is an artifact? What is a fossil? Find out here!About

3 million BCE

Australopithecus

"Southern Ape"

Human-like hominids

Lucy

Basic traits of humans. Special because he could stand up. Main physical difference between early man and apes are the hands.

About

2 million BCE

Homo Habilis

"Handy Man"

First true humans

Stone tools - the first tool-maker

Lived in Africa

Taller, had a larger brainAbout

1.5 million BCE

Homo Erectus

"Upright Man"

Made and controlled fire

The first hunters

Traveled over land bridges from Africa, to begin to populate the world, about 1 million years agoAbout

500,000 B.C.

Homo Sapiens

"Wise Man"

& Neanderthals

Neanderthals Buried their dead with ceremony.

Stone-tipped spears, bone needles, bone fish hooks, sewed their clothes from animal skins, warm boots Buried their dead with ceremony.

Stone-tipped spears, bone needles, bone fish hooks, sewed their clothes from animal skins, warm boots

About

25,000 BCE until about 10,000 BCE

Homo Sapiens Sapiens &

"Moderns"

Cave Paintings

Cro-Magnon & "Moderns"

Bow and arrows, well constructed huts with central hearths for fires; necklaces & pendants, cave art, little statues made from ivory, antler, bone; tools and weapons for hunting and fishing, oil lamps. Used honey to sweeten food. End of the last Ice Age about 10,000 years ago.

Introduction

Did man live at the same time as dinosaurs? What is a hominid? What is an artifact? What is a fossil? Find out here!About

3 million BCE

Australopithecus

"Southern Ape"

Human-like hominids

Lucy

Basic traits of humans. Special because he could stand up. Main physical difference between early man and apes are the hands.

About

2 million BCE

Homo Habilis

"Handy Man"

First true humans

Stone tools - the first tool-maker

Lived in Africa

Taller, had a larger brainAbout

1.5 million BCE

Homo Erectus

"Upright Man"

Made and controlled fire

The first hunters

Traveled

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