Handy Man By Jerry Rose and Taylor S Introduction We are going to take you on a ride through time to meet the Homo Habilis species You will learn a lot of interesting information about this species They were also called the Handy Man ID: 495869
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Homo Habilis“Handy Man”
By: Jerry, Rose, and Taylor S.Slide2
Introduction
We are going to take you on a ride through time to meet the Homo Habilis species. You will learn a lot of interesting information about this species. They were also called the Handy Man.Slide3
Dates and Places of Existence
They were alive about two to three million years ago. [1] They lived in east and south Africa. They also lived in southeast Asia, near the Pacific Ocean. [2]Slide4
Physical Appearance
Homo Habilis had more human-looking faces than earlier groups of early humans. They had smaller teeth than Australopithecus. [3] Most females were three to four and a half feet tall and weighed around seventy pounds. Men weighed slightly more than the females and were a bit taller than them. [4] Slide5
Shelter
Homo Habilis made small huts out of branches and small stones. The stones kept the branches in place. They used mud to keep the rocks in place. These huts were dome-shaped structures. [5]Slide6
Food
The Homo Habilis were hunters. They would work together to creep up and pounce on their prey.[6] They used branches and stones to kill their prey. After the prey was dead, they chipped sharp flakes of stone to create a knife to cut the meat. They smashed heavy stones on the animal’s bones and ate the marrow inside of it.[7] They ate berries, birds and their eggs, nuts, leaves, and roots. [8]Slide7
Daily Life Homo
Habilis were gatherers and hunters. Their main diet was fruits, vegetables, roots, and nuts. They used basic tools, such as rocks, to hunt. You might think Homo Habilis would look for caves to spend the night in, but caves quite often had dangerous predators living within them, just as they do today.[9]Slide8
Tools
Homo Habilis made tools out of stones. A tool they used often was the hammerstone, which they used to break stones into smaller pieces. Homo
Habilis
were somewhat intelligent so they could make tools out of stones. [10]Slide9
Fire
Since this group of early humans wasn’t able to make fires, Homo Habilis had to wait until they found something burning from a natural cause.[11] They found land with plants that had been struck by lightning.[12] A camp fire had to be carefully watched because if the fire went out, Homo
Habilis
did not know how to start it again.[13]Slide10
Religion
Homo Habilis was so busy fighting for their survival that they didn’t have time to make a religion. Their entire lives were spent looking for food and trying to stay alive. [14] As a result, they didn’t have a religion of which we are aware.Slide11
Language Scientists do not believe that this early species of humans was capable of speech.[15] Therefore, Homo
Habilis probably communicated using some gestures and simple sounds.[16]Slide12
Clothing Homo Habilis didn’t wear clothing, because they were very hairy. Therefore, they did not need clothing. Eventually, as hunters, they may have used animal skins to drape over themselves like blankets. [17]Slide13
Paintings and Carvings
Since Homo Habilis was one of the first species of human, they didn’t have time to paint and carve because they were too busy adapting to Earth and trying to survive. [18]Slide14
Interesting Information
Louis and Mary Leakey discovered remains of Homo Habilis in Olduvai Gorge in eastern Africa. [19]Homo Habilis means Handy Man. They have that name because they are good at making tools. [20]Slide15
Questions
How did Homo Habilis get meat?Did Homo
Habilis
use tools? If not, why not? If so, what materials did they use for tools?
Did Homo
Habilis
wear clothing? If not, why not? If so, what was the clothing?Slide16
Answers
Homo Habilis followed their prey, and then pounced on it, often hitting the prey with a stone or a branch.Homo Habilis had tools, and they made their tools out of stone. The most common tool was the hammerstone.
Homo
Habilis
didn’t wear any clothing because they had thick hair all over their bodies. Slide17
Conclusion
We hoped you enjoyed our ride back in time to meet the Homo Habilis species. Now you know that the Homo Habilis were great at making tools, building huts, and hunting animals with stones or branches. This is why scientists gave this species the name “Handy Man.” Slide18
Endnotes
Kearns, Marsha, “Homo Habilis,”
Early Humans
, Creative Teaching Press, CA, 1993, p. 4.
Ibid.
Ibid.
“Early Humans
PowerPoints
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http://msmcclure.com
, 2002.
Kearns, “Homo
Habilis
,” p. 4.
Ibid.
Ibid.
Ibid.
Ibid.
“Early Humans,” www.earlyhumans.mrdonn.org/tools.html.
Ibid.
Ibid.
Ibid.
Ms. McClure’s Brain.
Kearns, “Homo
Habilis
,” p. 4.
Ibid.
Facchini
,
Fiorenzo
, “
A Day with Homo
Habilis
, Twenty-First Century Books, CT, 2003, p. 24.
Ibid, p. 23 & 27.
Kearns, “Homo
Habilis
,” p. 4.
Ibid.
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Bibliography
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Facchini
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Kearns, Marsha.“Homo
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.”
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