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The Story of PREHISTORY This is the story of our world before people learned to write.

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Page 1: The Story of PREHISTORY This is the story of our world before people learned to write

The Story of PREHISTORY

This is the story of our world before people learned to write.

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Africa is where it all started

Find HADAR on the map. It is in Ethiopia in eastern Africa. More than 3 millionyears ago, a creature by the name ofAUSTRALOPITHECUS AFARENSIS, we’ll call her “LUCY” learned to walk on two legs,not four!

Lucy was short, just over 3 feettall. Her bones, now fossilsare pictured at the left.

Her fossil was discovered byan ANTHROPOLOGIST namedJohananson in 1974.

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The Origin of Species --Lots of changes over lots of years

Anthropologists have learned that Homo, the animal family to which you and I belong, began about 2.5 million years ago - a half million years after Lucy, but also in Africa.

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Map of Hominid Fossils found in Africa

Look at all the places in Africa where anthropologists have found Hominid fossils!!! I have a green backpack on!

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Homo Habilis 2.5 million years ago Olduvai Gorge, Tanzania

Mr. Homo Habilis, you can call him “Tool Man” was good with his hands. He’s the first to make tools.Look at the way

he turned a stone into a tool

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Homo Erectus 1.5 million years agoBIG news about Homo Erectus! He stands upall of the time. Look at his LONG, STRONG legs.Look how much larger his brain has grown.

He cooperates with others to hunt. He and hispeople have spread over all of Africa and movednorth in Europe and east into much of Asia.

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Homo Erectus gains a great new skill

By 750,000 years ago, Homo Erectuslearns to master fire.

How does this make his life better? different?Can you name three ways?

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Two Kinds of Hominids live in Europe, but only one survives

Let’s meet our closest Homo ancestors.

Neanderthal man comes first. You’ve probably seenGEICO’s cave man on TV! He’s NOT DUMB!

• He can talk. • He hunts in groups. • He decorates his caves with art.• He cares for the sick. • He buries his dead with gifts.

But for some reason, he loses out to his rival, Cro-Magnon Man

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Cro-magnon Man

Look familiar? Not that different from us!

He’s even smarter than Neanderthal – which is probably why he won out.What were his smarts?

• He invented clothing that fit. • He invented needles made from bird bones, and thread from tendon fiber• He invented weaving to make fabric• He invented musical instruments• He began to trade• He painted in the caves where he lived

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Cromagnon’s Art Talent

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Homo Sapiens SapiensNow that brings us up to date!

We are all Homo Sapiens Sapiens.