Transcript #5 Prehistory Notes

-FROM HUNTERS AND GATHERS TO
CIVILIZATION
-ASSIGNMENT SUMMARY PARAGRAPH
Describe
what a
civilization is.
AIM: How did early humans survive?
DO NOW: How do we know people lived thousands of
years ago??
TRACING THE MIGRATION (MOVEMENT) OF EARLY HUMANS
ACCORDING TO THE MAP, WHERE DID EARLY HUMANS ORIGIN?
AFRICA
LOUIS & MARY LEAKEY (1903-1972) Kenyan archaeologists who began
looking for early human remains in East
Africa. They found many tools, bones &
other artifacts.
DONALD JOHANSON - (1974)
archaeologist who found “Lucy”, a
part of an early human skeleton in
Ethiopia
STANDARDS FOR BEING HUMAN:
1. 90cc (cubic cm) skull size
2. Upright vertebrate
3. Thumb for tool making
WHAT ARE THESE IMAGES & WHAT DO THEY TELL
US ABOUT EARLY HUMANS?
*NOTES*
Paleolithic Era (Old Stone Age) 2 million B.C. - 10,000 B.C.
1. Hunting & gathering societies
2. Nomads- people who travel from place to place in
constant search of food and water
3. People traveled in small groups
4. Simple tools/weapons made of stone, bone & wood
5. Use of clothes & fire
6. Cave paintings found of animals
7. Animism- religion which involves worshipping spirits
in nature