Human Origins Day!
• Open up your homework to be
checked by Miss Smith
• Complete Warm-Up #2 at your desk.
• Write down your homework- Read
pages 13-16 and take cornell notes!
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Class Agenda
Essential Questions
Human Origins Notes
Stonehenge Article
Stearns Expectations (Pre-AP)
Venn Diagrams
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What is an archaeologist?
What is carbon dating?
How can we describe Homo erectus?
How can we describe Homo sapiens?
What is Stonehenge?
Human Origins in Africa
Where do we come from?
Scientists Search for Origins
• Archaeologists - scientists who learn
about early people by excavating and
studying the traces of early settlements
Scientists Search for Origins
• Evidence
– bones
– artifacts
• tools, jewelry, and other human-made objects
Scientists Search for Origins
• Lucy - the oldest
human, who was
found in Ethiopia
• Carbon Dating - the process of
measuring radioactivity to determine
the age of objects
Scientists Search for Origins
• Stonehenge is an example of an
archaeological site in England
Progress in Paleolithic Age
• Homo Habilis - person with ability
– Lived 2.5-1.5 million years ago
– Appeared in East Africa
– Known as the first toolmaker
• Made first simple stone tools
– hunted and gathered food
Progress in Paleolithic Age
• Homo Erectus – person who walks upright
– 1.8 million to 30,000 years ago
– Hunters and gatherers
– First to walk upright and use fire
– Developed more advanced tools
– The first hominids to move from Africa
• They moved to India, China, and Europe
Dawn of Modern Humans
Homo Sapiens - person who thinks
Lived between 100,000 and 400,000 years ago
Neanderthals
Cro-Magnons
first Homo sapiens modern humans
Dawn of Modern Humans
• Neanderthals – first Homo sapiens
– Hunters and gatherers
– Sophisticated tools
– Built temporary shelters
– Planned burials of dead
– Cared for disabled members
Dawn of Modern Humans
• Cro-Magnons – modern humans
– Hunters and gatherers
– Long-distance weapons like spear-throwers
and the bow and arrow
– Planned cooperative big-game hunts
– Advanced skill in spoken language
– Cave paintings
Early Human Man Diagram
• Fill in the diagram with important
information from your notes 
Stonehenge Article
• Where is Stonehenge?
• What do you think it is, from the pictures we
looked at earlier?
• What else do you know about it?
• Now, let’s read the article to find out! As you
read, highlight important details.
15 minutes!
Writing Activity
Pre-Writing Assignment
• Get out the following:
– a writing utensil
– the Venn diagram worksheet
• Clear everything else off your desk
Writing Assignment #1
• On one of the Venn diagram
worksheets, compare and contrast
yourself and a sibling or parent.
• Write out at least 5 unique things
about each of you and 5 similarities
in the part where the circles cross.
Example #1:
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Writing Assignment #2
• On the second of the Venn diagram
worksheets, compare and contrast
the United States and Australia.
• Write out at least 5 unique things
about each in their circle and 5
similarities in the middle.
Example #2:
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Post-Writing Assignment
• Now, go back and re-read your chart.
• Decide whether you think these two
countries are more similar or more
different based on the information you
put in the circles.
• At the top of the page, try to write a
thesis statement for a paper about this
comparison.
The U.S. and Australia are different because…,
but they are more similar because…
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