Archaeologists study past cultures by locating and analyzing human remains settlements fossils and artifacts What is the difference between a fossil and an artifact What can archaeologists learn from fossils ID: 235580
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Warm Up
Archaeologists study past cultures by locating and analyzing human remains, settlements, fossils, and artifacts.
What is the difference between a fossil and an artifact?
What can archaeologists learn from fossils?
Why do you think archaeologists study about the past?Slide2
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Thought to have started in Africa
Have found artifacts, fossils and human remainsArtifacts found in other areas of the world too but, those in Africa are the oldestDated by use of Carbon-14 DatingMeasures the amount of carbon in a artifact and compares it to
give approximate ageSlide4
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Travels of Early Humans in AfricaSlide5
Australopithecus
Homo HabilisHomo ErectusNeanderthalCro-Magnon
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Lived 4 million to 1million B.C.
First humanlike creatures to walk uprightMary Leakey finds evidence in Africa 1978Johanson finds “Lucy”Australopithecus
that lived 3.5 million years ago1st full skeleton found of this speciesSlide7
Lived 2.5 million to 1.5 million B.C.
Habilis
means “man of skill”Thought to be the 1st to make stone toolsUsed the tools to cut meat
and crack bones
Evidence shows they could
cut elephant meat
Jokingly known as the
“Handy Man”Slide8Slide9
Lived 1.6 million to 30,000 B.C.Remains found in Africa, Asia and Europe
Considered to be the “upright man”Developed new ways of using stone toolsDigging, scraping, etc. First group to control & create FIRE
Also thought to create spoken/oral languageSlide10
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These were the common humans
Lived 100,000 to 400,000 years agoCro-Magnon man and
Neanderthals are considered the 1st two early Homo SapiensTraveled from Africa to Asia, Europe and the AmericasKnown as the “wise men”Slide12Slide13
Found in Europe
Considered fully modern humans
Created cave art
Studied animals and stalked their prey
Found in Europe and SW Asia
Battled Cro-Magnons for food and land
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to have ritual burials
Very muscular build- look like cavemenSlide14Slide15
Lived in clans- groups of people
Were nomadic- traveled from place to placeFollowed food sources (animals)Were dependent off wild plants and animalsMen were usually hunters, women usually gathered
In constant search for shelter, water & foodSlide16
Oldest found are
from 30,000-40,000
years ago
Found in caves
across Europe as
well as Africa &
Australia
Possibly part of
religious
ceremoniesSlide17
Paleolithic cave
paintings at Lascaux Cave in southwestern France.Slide18
Cave paintings at the
Laas Geel complex in northern Somalia.Slide19
30,000-year-old cave hyena painting found in the
Chauvet Cave in France.Slide20
Cave of Altamira, near Santander, Spain.