1. Warm Up: Why do you think the artists painted these pictures
Warm Up: Why do you think the artists painted these pictures? What kind of lifestyle did they lead? What did they eat and how did they support themselves?

2. Evolution or Creation? The law says evolution so lets go for it!
Early Man
Evolution or Creation? The law says evolution so lets go for it!

3. Hominids Humans and humanlike creatures
Anthropologists study their remains and can figure out what they looked like and how they lived

4. Artifacts Objects made and used by early hominids
Tools, clothing, works of art, weapons, and toys
limited evidence

5. Culture
Set of beliefs, knowledge, and pattern of living that the group develops.

6. Lucy Found by Donald Johanson
Female hominid who lived 3 million years ago
Named after the Beatles song Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds

7. Mary Leakey Found a skeleton dating back 3.7 million years
Australopithecus or Southern Ape
These walked upright

8. Early Humans
Powerful jaws, receding chins, low foreheads, and heavy eyebrow ridges
Ate seeds, fruits, nuts, plants
Eventually hunted, migrated from Africa

9. Neanderthal People Early Homo Sapiens Wore animal skins for clothes
Used fire for warmth and cooking
Used more efficient tools than earlier man
They buried their dead with meat and tools

10. Cro-Magnons Another Kind of Homo Sapien Appeared in Europe
Made better tools and weapons. Threw spears and were effective hunters
Cave Paintings (starter)
Migrated to Northern Asia and Australia
Disappeared 10,000 years ago

11. The Agricultural Revolution
Agriculture: The raising of crops for food
Domestication: The taming of animals such as cattle, goats, sheep and pigs
New Stone Age

12. Hunter – Gatherers Men went out to hunt animals
Women remained near the campsite to care for children
Women and children also gathered plants and fruit for food

13. Neolithic Agricultural Revolution
People learned to raise wheat, barley, rice, and millet
Invented plow and fertilizer
Revolutionized human life
Settlements shifted to agriculture
Villages grew into cities