Early People

What is anthropology?

• study human life in the past by examining the things people left behind

• the study of how human beings behave, how they act together, where they came from, and what makes one group of people different front another

What is archaeology?

• study human life in the past by examining the things people left behind

• time before written records

What is Prehistory?

• time before written records

• hardened remains or imprints of living things that exist long ago

What is a Geologist?

•  objects made and used by humans

• scientists who study the physical materials of Earth itself, such as soil and rocks

What are artifacts?

• time before written records

•  objects made and used by humans

What kind of archaeological evidence indicates that human life began in Africa?

• Handy Man because these people made and used tools. 

• Leakey’s discovery of Olduvai Gorge in East Africa.

What are the 3 methods used to determine the age of an objects?

Answer explanation

1. Comparison of objects in different layers

2. Radioactive dating

3. DNA analysis

Who was Homo habilis?

• Lucy because she was the first known species to be found.

• Handy Man because people learned to use tools.

Who was Lucy?

• the name of the first handy man found with tools

• the name of the remains of a 3.5 foot tall woman discovered by Donald Johanson.

Why was Lucy's discovery so important?

• her bones suggest that she walked upright on two legs similar to Homo Sapiens

• her skull suggested that language had developed