Welcome!
Please COPY & RESPOND TO (3 sentences) in your notebook to the prompt:
"How can we learn about the first humans before there was WRITING?"

CHAIR

ENTRANCE PROCEDURE:
Record definitions from textbook into your notes.
Section 1.1

Note picture 1

Note picture 2

Be quick & clear with your note-taking.
DO record all notes which have an
asterisk (*)
BEFORE the text.

*Prehistory

Archaeology

Anthropology

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*Leaky family's excavation at Olduvai Gorge

*Lucy

Artifacts

*Evolution

Charles Darwin

Homonids

Note on Note-taking

• For these next slides, leave 3 lines blank between EACH bullet point.
• _________________________________________________________________________________
• . . . Just like this!
• Use THOSE LINES for additional information about the bullet point.

*Evolution of Humans

• Australopithecus
• Homo Habilis
• Homo Erectus
• Neanderthals
• Homo Sapiens Sapiens

Evolution of Humans

• Australopithecus

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Australopithecus reconstruction model

*Bipedalism: Walking on two legs

Evolution of Humans

• Australopithecus
• Homo Habilis

*Homo Habilis: "Handy human"

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Evolution of Humans

• Australopithecus
• Homo Habilis
• Homo Erectus

* Homo Erectus: "Upright human"

*Homo Erectus: First homonid to control fire

Evolution of Humans

• Australopithecus
• Homo Habilis
• Homo Erectus
• Neanderthals

*Neanderthals

*Neanderthals buried their dead

Evolution of Humans

• Australopithecus
• Homo Habilis
• Homo Erectus
• Neanderthals
• Homo Sapiens Sapiens

Out of Africa

Questions to Answer Before Class Ends

• How do we define and learn about Prehistory?
• How did the homonids develop?

If systematic agriculture requires water, where do you think the first civilizations were settled?

Mesopotamia

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