Early Hominids
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tomfreeland on September 27, 2010
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Terms | Definitions |
|---|---|
 Hominid | early human ancestor |
| Palenonthropologist | one who studies ancient human development and culture |
| Capabilities | skills |
| Taxonomy | system of grouping genus and species(a way to group living things) |
| Antropologist | one who studies human development and culture |
| Paleo | ancient |
| Remains | a dead body |
| Bipedal | walks on two feet |
| Migrate | to move from geographical region to another |
| Lucy | in 1974 Donald Johanson(paleoanthropologist) discovered this in Africa, one of the earliest hominid discoveries |
| Australopithecus Afarensis | Lucy and her relatives.Donald Johanson called the earliest hominid in Africa Austrolopithecus(southern ape) afarensis(for the area where it was found) |
| bipeds | Australopithecus afarecus could gather and carry food and use their hands to carry and defend themselves and children |
| True | remains that were 4 to 3 million years ago were difficult to find and rarely complete |
| 1/3 | Lucy and other AA were different than us like their brains were ______ our size and probably werent able to talk |
| Homo Habilis | was biped, brains twice the size of Lucy |
| Mary and Louis Leakey | Paleoanthropologists that discovered remains from another hominid group if Africa |
| Homo Habilis | found among tools(handy man), lived two million to 1.5 million years ago, had combination of ape and human characteristics, found only in Africa, and found together,which means they lived in groups so it was easier togather food,survive and defend themselves |
| Handy man | tools were simple, rocks for chopping tools, animal bones for digging sticks and sharp pieces of stones for cutting |
| True | The ability to make tools allowed Handy Man to lives better than Lucy true or false |
| Handy man | probably used tools to scrape meat from dead animals(they were scavengers), they may have dug or made traps for small animals |
| Homo Erectus(upright man) | Discovered in Asia, posture was fully upright, lived from 1.8 to 200,000 years ago. |
| Homo Erectus | probably the first hominid to migrate out of Africa, remains found in Europe and Asia, made for travel and walking, tall and thin with strong bones, looked more like modern humans |
| Upright man | with their larger brains, their tools were more complex than Homo habilis like stronger hand axes |
| Fire | Greatest tool of upright man |
| Upright man | burned animal bones were found near Homo erectus reamains tells us they probably cooked their food, they ate more meat than other hominids |
| upright man | scientist believe they moved from place to place and built huts for shelter, often with fires in the center, this allowed to move into colder climates, they could travel farther and live longer, use fire for warmth and protection |
| Homo Sapiens Neanderthalensis(Neanderthals) | found in Germany, scientist believed they lived from 230,000 to 30,000 years ago, lived in Africa, Europe, Near East and Asia |
| Homo Sapeins Neanderthalensis | were shorter and stockier than modern humans but very strong |
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