Paleolithic Age
From 2.5 million to 8,000 B.C.
By: Mikayla Whipple

Australopithecine

• Around from 4 million to 1 million B.C.
• They were found in southern and eastern Africa.
• Their brain size was 500 cubic centimeters.
• They were hominids, the first human like creature to walk upright.
• "Lucy" discovered by Donald Johanson in Ethiopia Africa, 1974

Homo Habilis

• Around from 2.5 million to 1.5 million B.C.
• They were found in East Africa.
• Their brain size was 700 cubic centimeters.
• They were also the first ones to make stone tools.
• Homo Habilis means "man of skill".
• First one ever was found by Louis and Mary Leakey in 1960 in Tanzania, Africa.

Homo Erectus

• Around from 1.6 million to 30,000 B.C.
• They were found in India, China, Asia, Africa, and Europe.
• Their brain size was 1,000 cubic centimeters.
• Homo Erectus translates to "upright man".
• They became the first hominid to ever move from Africa, speaking, and make fire.

Neanderthals

• Around from 200,000 to 30,000 B.C.
• They were found in Europe and Southwest Asia.
• Their brain size was 1,450 cubic centimeters.
• They were the first to have burial rituals, beliefs, some sort of clothing, and live in caves.
• They were very resourceful, developed rituals and different beliefs
• Named after Neander Valley, Germany

Cro Magnon

• Around from 40,000 to 8,000 B.C.
• They were found in Europe.
• Their brain size was 1,400 cubic centimeters.
• They are classified as fully modern humans.
• They also were the first ones to create art, plan their hunts, and study animal habits.
• They hunted in groups.

Survival tools

• They used stone, bone, and wood to fashion more than 100 different items.
• They used the knives they make to kill and butcher different animals.
• They made anything from necklaces to sculptures of animals.
• They used and ground mammoth tusk, seashells, lion teeth, and bear claws.

Artistic

• They made drawings and paintings on cave walls.
• They used charcoal, mud and animal blood to make them.
• In Africa, they engraved and painted on rocks, caves or rock shelters.
• In Australia, they created paintings on large rocks.
• They also made anything from necklaces to sculptures of animals.

Vocabulary

• Hundreds of unidentified artifacts are stored in numerous rooms at a museum.
• There are a lot of different cultures within the world.
• Humans, and the early age people, are all hominids.
• Right now in World History we are all learning about the Paleolithic Age.
• Everybody nowadays uses technology, and it runs their lives.