CHAPTER 2SECTION 1

THE FIRST PEOPLE

PREHISTORY

HOMINID

ANCESTOR

The time before writing

(about 5,000 years ago)

Early ancestor of humans

Relative who lived in the past (dead)

“southern ape”

Came from Africa / 4-5 million years ago

Brain about 1/3 size of modern day man

Did humans walk the earth with dinosaurs?...NO

Dinosaurs started out 220 million years ago & died out 65 million years ago

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• “handy man”

• Appeared in Africa

• 2.4 million years ago

Used early stone tools for chopping / scraping

Brain was about half size of modern day man

“upright man”

• Appeared in Africa about 1.5 – 2 million years ago

• Used early stone tools like the hand ax

• Learned to control fire

• Migrated out of Africa to Asia & Europe

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“wise man”

• Appeared in Africa about 200,000 years ago

• Migrated around world

• Same species as modern humans

• Learned to create fire & use a wide variety of tools

* Developed language

TOOL - any handheld object that has been modified to help a person accomplish a task / pick up a tool

Stone tools first used / why?

First part of Stone Age is called the Paleolithic Era

Found oldest tools in Tanzania (East Africa)

Size of adult’s fist / 2.6 million years old

Think these tools used to process food / choppers

Then came hand ax

Then learned to attach wooden handles to stone for hunting

Hunted horses, deer, bison, mammoths

Formed societies First society = hunter-gatherer / ?? Believed to form small groups Followed animals to survive Hunted in groups Often led animals over cliffs / safer Language started to form – communication for

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Name the 4 ancestors of modern man.

Where did man originate from?

Name the first era of the Stone Age.

What came first…controlling fire or language?

What types of people were in the first society?