Early Humans

Pre History

• History before written records.

• The time before humans existed.

• History that really isn't real.

• Rewritten History.

Historians

• Scholars who study the past.

• People who dig up things to be studied.

• A social class in ancient Egypt.

  Important men in ancient Greece.

Artifacts

• Written documents historians can use to determine the full picture of a historical event.

• A heavy weapon that Roman Legions used to overwhelm their enemies.

• an object made by a human being, typically an item of cultural or historical interest.

• Facts in art history that historians can use to gather evidence about certain artists throughout history.

Hominid

• The creatures that walked the earth before humans were able to.

• Ancient Romans who developed science.

• A time period in history before written records.

• a primate of a family ( Hominidae ) that includes humans and their fossil ancestors and also (in recent systems) at least some of the great apes.

Paleolitic Period

• Old Stone Age

• New Stone Age

• Middle Stone Age

• Agricultural Revolution

Neolithic Period

• Middle Stone Age

• New Stone Age

• Fishing Revolution

• Old Stone Age

Australopithecus

• Southern Ape, possibly first hominid to walk upright and the most famous was Lucy.

• First hominid to make fire.

• First hominid to talk.

• First hominid to make tools.

Homo Sapiens

• Created the first writing system.

• First hominids to use verbal communication.

• First apes to walk upright.

• "wise man" first humans. Made tools from stones, and also used fire to their advantage.

Neanderthals

• Type of human that became the main species on the planet.

• First humans to walk upright.

• First humans to write books.

• Type of Homo Sapien that had bigger brains and bigger features.

Homo Sapiens Sapiens

• A type of Homo Sapiens who had large brains and large features.

• "Wise, wise man," became the dominate species on Earth and wiped out the other Homo Sapiens, the Neanderthals.

• First ape to cultivate fire.

• First apes to bridge the link to humans.