Unit 2: Human Origins
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Terms | Definitions |
|---|---|
 Tanzania | Mary Leakey found footprints of australopithecines here |
| Australopithecines | Which species's footprints did Mary Leakey find in Tanzania |
| Ethiopia | Where was Lucy was found? |
| Donald Johanson | Who found Lucy? |
| Australopithecus Afarensis | What species did Lucy belong to? |
| India, China, Southeast Asia, Europe | Where were all of the areas Homo Erectus migrated to? |
| Germany | Where quarry workers found Neanderthal bone fragments in 1856 |
| 1856 | What year were the first Neanderthal bone fragments found? |
| Quarry workers | Who found the Neanderthal bone fragments in 1856? |
| Shanidar Cave, Iraq | Where did a Neanderthal funeral take place 60,000 years ago? |
| Robert Braidwood | Excavated an agricultural site in Jarmo and found the birthplace of civilization |
| Jarmo | The site where Robert Braidwood found the birthplace of civilization |
| Chad | Fossils found here from 6-7 million years ago |
| 6-7 million years old | Age of human ancestor fossils found in Chad and Kenya |
| Kenya | Fossils of human ancestors also found here from 6-7 million years ago |
| Argentina | Cave paintings found here at Cuevas de las Manos |
| Cuevas de las Manos | In Argentina where cave paintings were found |
| Algeria | Cave paintings found here at Tassili n' Ager |
| Tassili n' Ager | Area in Algeria where cave paintings were found |
| France | Cave paintings found at Lascaux cave |
| France | Homo Erectus tools found here in Lascaux cave |
| Lascaux cave | Cave paintings and homo erectus tools found in this cave located in France |
| Spain | More cave paintings found here! |
| Indonesia | Java Man of the species Homo Erectus found |
| Nile River | Where early agriculture developed wheat, barley, and other crops |
| Huang He River | Rice and millet cultivated here |
| Mexico | Corn, beans, squash cultivated here |
| Peru | Potatoes and tomatoes cultivated here |
| Paleoanthropologist | studies old human ancestors |
| Taxonomy | Classification system |
| Carl Linneaus | Father of taxonomy |
| Australopithecus | First human ancestor genus |
| Homo | Several species in Homo Genus |
| Hominid | General term used to describe any number of upright walking animals |
| Bipedal | 2 Feet |
| By clues in early ancestor bones | How do we know what we know about early humans? |
| Australopithicus Afarenis | Stood upright, social, had thumbs...LUCY! |
| Homo Habilis | Used tools, had larger brains, Africa |
| Homo Erectus | Fire, caves, cannibalism (perhaps), migrated out of Africa, used clothes, tools, stood fully erect, tall! |
| Neanderthals | Spiritual, had feelings, funerals, erect, tools, close hunting range, smart, found in Neander Valley, Germany |
| Sapiens | Cro Magnons, distant hunting, muscles, cave art |
| The first neanderthal ever found had arthritis and stood slouching over | Why is there the stereotype that Neanderthals slouched over? |
| The chart implies that human ancestors got taller and stood more upright as they became more modern, which is false. Homo Erectus was taller than 4/5 of men today after Homo Erectus, all species walked completely upright. | First misconception about the evolution chart |
| Male gender is always represented in these charts, which can give the misconception that the male population was larger than the woman. | Second misconception about evolution chart |
| Walking in a line gives the idea that they evolved from one another, which is incorrect. We share common ancestors but didn't morph from one another | Third misconception about the evolution chart |
| Paleolithic | Old Stone Age with hunting and gathering |
| Neolithic | New Stone age with farming and animal domestication |
| end of ice age, discovery of agriculture, how to trap the animals | Factors that historians believed that advanced the Neolithic Revolution? |
| Neolithic Revolution | The shift from food-gathering to food-producing |
| Lascaux, France | Where did the four boys stumble upon a huge cave filled with early cave paintings? |
| 11-18 thousand years ago | How old was the cave that was found in france by four boys? |
| Sapiens | What hominid group made the cave paintings in france found by four boys? |
| Nomad | Follows its food |
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