Hominids Review

Hominids Review

Take Two

Poll

How confident are you with hominids?

• homi-whats?

• Kind of confident but still struggle sometimes

• Pretty confident and I rarely struggle

• I am the hominid master!

Learning Target. I can compare hominids on a timeline and identify them by their nicknames.

Vocabulary

Anthropologist: A scientist who studies human development and culture.

Archaeologist: An expert who studies the past by examining objects that people have left behind

Artifact:

An object made or used by people in the past (the stuff left behind)

Hominid: a human, or a creature that lived in the past that humans developed from.

Migrate: to move from one region to another

Multiple Choice

This word means to move from one place to another.

• migrate

• mitigate

Multiple Choice

What do archaeologists study?

• human culture

• objects from the past

Multiple Choice

An ancient arrowhead is an example of

• an artifact.

• a fossil.

• a hominid.

Multiple Choice

The first humans were called __________________.

• homophones

• homonymns

• homonids

Multiple Choice

What do anthropologists study?

• human culture

• objects from the past

• geography

Africa: The Cradle of Humankind

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.

Multiple Choice

On which continent is the Cradle of Humankind

• Asia

• Australia

• Antarctica

• Africa

Early Human Migration

Anthropologists believe between 56,000 and 200,000 years ago, early humans began to migrate outside of Africa.

Hominids: The First Humans

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. 

Multiple Choice

True or False? Australopithicus were very tall.

• True

• False

Multiple Choice

Lucy was bipedal. What does that mean?

• She crawled on all fours.

• She walked on 2 feet.

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. 

Multiple Choice

What is Homo Habilis' nickname?

• Lucy

• Handy Man

• Upright Man

• Wise Man

Fill in the Blanks

Homo Habilis used objects as

.

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. 

Multiple Choice

True or False? Homo Erectus were the first hominids to migrate out of Africa.

• True

• False

Multiple Choice

What was Homo Erectus' nickname?

• Handy Man

• Upright Man

• Neanderthal

• Wise Man

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 🧠;

Span:

200,000 to 28,000 B.C.E. 

Multiple Choice

Compared with other hominids, Neanderthals were on Earth the ______________.

• shortest amount of time.

• longest amount of time.

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. 

Multiple Choice

What is the Homo Sapiens' nickname?

• Wise Man

• Upright Man

• Handy Man

• Doubly-Wise Man

Poll

How confident are you with hominids?

• homi-whats?

• Kind of confident but still struggle sometimes

• Pretty confident and I rarely struggle

• I am the hominid master!