Presentation on theme: "Modern Humans"— Presentation transcript
Slide1
Modern Humans
By: Grace,
Madi
, Donovan and
A
ntonioSlide2
Introduction
Dates/ Daily life: 10,000 years after the ice age ended and the climate got warmer, plant life flourished and larger animals died out, and were replaced by forest dwelling animals along with a new type of Modern Humans. The Modern Humans made many advances in hunting and gathering. They were able to find out where the big game came from, and so they soon sheltered near the creatures and began hunting and farming. Their daily lives involved hunting, planting, gathering, and making homes. (1)Slide3
Where they lived
Modern Humans lived in many different places.
T
hese places
involved the grass lands of Africa and Australia, the forest of South America, the grasslands of Australia, the glaciers of Greenland and Alaska, and the deserts of Mexico,
etc.
They
also migrated from place to place until they settled and lived their lives. (2) Slide4
Shelter
Modern
Humans’
shelters were made from
bricks,
which consisted of mud and straw, and the roofs were thatched from
straw,
which was covered in mud. The houses were multiple stories, two or three at the most. Rush mats covered the rough earthen floor. Along with houses, courtyards, shrines, and granaries, store houses were built
. (3) Slide5
Food
Modern
Humans were
the
first farmers, but life still made farming difficult. So most of the food they ate was food they gathered or hunted. They collected wild grain, berries, nuts, and roots. From the grain, they used mortar and pestle to make flour that they then baked into hard, flat bread. Since Modern Humans had many techniques for hunting
(fish
traps,
dams
,
bows
and
arrows
, and canoes), they had a plentiful supply of meat. Besides these contraptions, they took wolf pups and trained them to help them on the hunts.
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Slide6
Tools
Modern
Humans used tools such
as stone axes—some with wooden handles,
knives, spears, harpoons, sharp
stone-tipped
arrows, and wooden bows. All of these things were made by
Modern Humans
.
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Fire
The
Modern Humans would make fire with a stick(tinder) and a stone(flint).The
Modern Humans
would use the fire to cook,
to provide
heat and for light, and to make
jewelry
shine. They would have to use special tools to make fire. The fire would protect them from dangerous animals, but when there was rain, the rain would extinguish the fire
. (6)Slide8Religion
Modern
Humans buried their dead. There is proof. Peter Beaumont found an infant buried in a cave, and the skeleton was
one hundred
percent complete!
(6)
Usually
priests were group leaders of the
Modern
Humans. They organized daily worship at the shrines and also held ceremonies and rituals
. (7) Slide9
Communication
Modern Humans communicated through cave
paintings; they
also had a spoken language
.(8) Slide10Clothing
During
the sweltering hot days of
summer,
the Modern Humans had to put away their winter clothing and take out their looms for
making cloth. When the cloth was made, they would dye the cloth in different shades, such as grey, brown, and black. (9)
Modern
Humans used many materials for their clothing, including cattle and goat skins. They also used sheep’s wool. But, back then goats, cattle, sheep were wild, so the Moderns Humans had to tame and raise the babies they took from the mother goat and sheep.
After a few years, goats and cattle were killed for their meat and skins, and sheep were sheered yearly for their warm fleece coats. (9)Slide11
Art
Modern
Humans made
jewelry. They
also created
pottery,
and they fired it to give it a custom strength. They also created little statues carved from ivory or bones
. (10)
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Conclusion/Fun facts
All
in all, Modern Humans were interesting to learn
about,
and we hope you had as much fun learning about them
as
we did telling you. One fun fact is that when compared to Homo Sapiens, Neanderthals, Homo Erectus, and Homo
Habilis
,
Modern
Humans had the
largest
brains
. Our second fun fact is that Modern Humans actually aren’t that different from humans today!
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QuestionsWhich human group has the largest brain?
How complete was the baby Modern Human skeleton found in the cave?
What aspects of the Modern Humans led them to being so successful?Slide14
Answers1. Yes, Modern Humans had the largest brain.
2. The baby was 100% completed!
3. The Modern Humans were such a success was because they farmed and worked together.Slide15
End Notes
(
1) Early Humans Packet, pp. 1-3.
(2) Ibid.
(3) Ibid.
(4) Ibid.
(5) Ibid.
(6) msmcclure.com/PPP.
(7) Early Humans Packet, pp. 1-3.
(8
) msmcclure.com/PPP
.
(9) Early Humans Packet, pp. 1-3
(10) early humans.modern.org
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Facchini
,
Fiorenzo
.
A
Day with Homo Sapiens,
p. 16.Slide16
Bibliography
Facchini
,
Fiorenzo
.
A Day With Homo
Sapiens.
21
st
Century
Books:
Brookfield,Connecticut
, 2003.
Kearns, Marsha.
Homo
Sapien
Early Humans.
Creative Teaching Press: C.A., 1993.
Martin, Philip.
http://earlyhumans.modern.org.
McClure, Tracy.
http:msmcclure.com.
