Warm Up 1. List things that an outsider would find in your trashcan if they were to look through it 2. What does your trash say about you??
Early Humans & Birth of Civilization
What do you know about early human beings & civilizations How were we taught that the world came to be??
I. The study of past societies through studying what people left behind. II. Artifacts are those things that people left behind, they can include: Tools and Weapons Art and Sculpture Pottery Jewelry Human Remains Ancient Buildings and Monuments
Modern Archeologists Kenya, hominid species completely in tack (3.5 million years old)
2007- intact baby mammoth in Russia
Lascaux Cave paintings
I. The study of human life and culture I. The remains of ancient plants and animals. II. By studying fossils archaeologists and anthropologists can learn about what people ate, what animals they had around, and their way of life. I. Carbon dating is used to date organic artifacts, or things that were once alive II. All living things contain a radioactive isotope of Carbon called Carbon 14 which they absorb from the sun while they are alive. III. If we know how much Carbon something has left we can count back to how much is had to begin with to determine the age of the artifact. Is limited to things 50,000 years old or less.
Early Humans
I. Human-like creature that walked upright II. Lived in Africa 4 million+ years ago III. Existed for millions of years; changed over time IV. Louis and Mary Leaky discovered them V. Lucy Hominids
Homo Habilis I. 2.5-1.6 million years ago II. Handy Human III. First to use stone tools IV. Discovered near Olduvai George in Tanzania, Africa
Homo Habilis
Homo Erectus I. Upright Human II. 1.8 to 100,000 years ago III. Had arms and legs in modern human proportion IV. First human to leave Africa
Homo Sapiens Wise Humans Homo Sapiens Sapiens I. Rapid brain growth II. Mastered fire III. 200,000 B.C. to present IV. Modern humans Neanderthals I. 100,000 B.C. to 30,000 B.C. II. Buried their dead; believed in afterlife? III. Wore animal skins
During the last ice age between 100,000 B.C. and 8000 B.C. the water level in the oceans dropped revealing a land bridge over the Bering Strait connecting Asia and North America
I. Paleo means old Lithic means stone II. Paleolithic= Old Stone Age called the stone age because early man used stone to make his tools and weapons. III.Paleolithic man lived in groups called clans. IV. Clans got their food by Hunting and Gathering V. Once the food supply ran out they would move to a different area. VI. Because they moved from place to place they were Nomadic. The role of men was to do the hunting The role of women was gathering and caring for children
I. Use of Fire A. Early man learned to use fire to adapt to his environment B. Probably discovered from friction, lightning, or accidental hitting two rocks together. II. Ice Ages A. Fire was very important during the ice ages. Without fire man would not have been able to survive. III.Cave Art A. Man has created art for a very long time. There is some argument as to what this art was for. Was it art as art, or art as a form of religion?
Are You With Me??? 1) Define an archaeologist 2) List three examples of artifacts that ancient people left behind 3) Which early species of man do modern humans belong to? 4) Describe the life of Paleolithic humans in three sentences: