Hominids Review
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Hominids Review
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Learning Target. I can compare hominids on a timeline and identify them by their nicknames.
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Vocabulary
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Anthropologist: A scientist who studies human development and culture.
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Archaeologist: An expert who studies the past by examining objects that people have left behind
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Artifact:
An object made or used by people in the past (the stuff left behind)
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Hominid: a human, or a creature that lived in the past that humans developed from.
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Migrate: to move from one region to another
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Africa: The Cradle of Humankind
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The map on the left shows Ethiopia, where Lucy was discovered. The map on the right shows how far early hominids migrated in Africa. They made it all the way to the southern tip and to the southern edge of the Sahara desert.
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Early Human Migration
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Anthropologists believe between 56,000 and 200,000 years ago, early humans began to migrate outside of Africa.
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Hominids: The First Humans
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Australopithecus afarensis
Nickname: “Lucy”; The earliest known hominids; They were bipedal (walked on two feet), but small; Time Span: 4 million to 3 million B.C.E.
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Homo Habilis; Nickname: “Handy Man”; Also bipedal (walked on two feet) ; Used objects as tools; Taller than Lucy; Span: 2 million to 1.5 million B.C.E.
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Homo Erectus; Nickname: “Upright Man”; They lived on earth longer than any other hominid
First to walk totally upright (not hunched); Made and used more complex tools; The first hominids to migrate out of Africa; Span:
1.8 million to 200,000 B.C.E.
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Homo Sapiens Neanderthalensis: Nickname: “Neanderthal Man”;
They were on earth the shortest amount of time; (only about 170,000 years!);
Neanderthals were shorter than other hominids of this era;
They had large brains 🧠;
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200,000 to 28,000 B.C.E.
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Homo Sapiens:
Nickname: “Wise Man”;
Homo Sapiens looked more like us than Neanderthals and survived because of their ability to create better tools;
Big brains!
Span:
200,000 to 28,000 B.C.E.
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