What features and skills have
made the human species
survive?
Warm Up: Prepare for Notebook Check
Take 5 minutes and compare your notebook with a
partner.
Do you have?:
-page numbers correct?
-Essential Questions on left side pages?
-titles on right side pages?
-WIO’s and Warm-Up assignments written and
completed?
-Notes taped in where they need to be?
WIO: Mankind Video Notes and Reflection
Answer in at least 3 complete sentences:
What was the most interesting thing you
learned from the video today? Why was it
interesting to you? What do you want to know
more about?
Early Human Species Notes
Date:
9.24.13 A
9.25.13 B
Class Work:
•Warm Up
•Check HW- Scavenger Hunt
•Notebook Check- Quiz Grade (15
min)
•WIO (30 min)
•Early Human Species Notes (15
min)
•Go over HW
HW: Get Progress Report Signed.
Make corrections to project or turn in
missing assignments as needed.
Finish Today’s WIO
Page20
Page21
Notebook Check
• You have 15 minutes to complete. NO
LONGER.
• Put answers on a separate sheet of paper.
Important ant Scavenger Hunt
Answers
• 1) Why do you think the areas on the image/visual in green? Come back
and Clarify your answer (after you have done your research)
– Prediction:
– Clarification: Those are the fertile lands. This is the
area of the world that we refer to as the “Fertile
Crescent” because it is from this area that civilizations
begin to thrive.
• 4) Click the tab “Overview” to return to the previous page. Select
“Chapter 1 – Human Origins”, and then select “1.1 Rise of Humans”. This
page is discussing footprints- How are the footprints being used? Where
have you seen an example of this before?
• They are being used to relate fossils to human origins.
Important Scavenger Hunt
Answers
• 5) *Archeology in the beginning was about
looking for treasure. Archeology today is more to
find the historical events so that we can better
understand our world.
• *Tools that are used are more advanced and can
date artifacts and fossils more accurately.
• 6) Anthropologists study human behaviors and
cultures.
– Archeologists study the artifacts and fossils of human
societies.
Important Scavenger Hunt
Answers
• 7) What are some ways that Archeologists
examine a site?
– *Digging/excavation
– *Precision tools
• 9) Look over the “Review Flashcards” What are
they titled? How could something like this be
resourceful to you at home (not just this unitbut any)?
– * study tool
• 10) What were the changes that led to human migration out of
Africa? How did they migrate? Provide
2 examples.
– *Climate change
– *need for resources
– *walked in mass groups
• 13) Can you find reasoning why they were they created? What is
The Social Hierarchy?
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1. Religious Officials
2.Skilled workers
3.Merchants and artisans
4. Farmers
Mankind Video Notes
• Video Guide goes on page 20- TODAY’S
WIO
• IT GOES IN ORDER! PAY ATTENTION!
• WE WILL GO OVER IT if you don’t get it.
DON’T Distract someone else!
Mankind: human origins video key
• ___13 Billion years___ after the universe begins, the human species
is born.
• In the grasslands of ___EAST AFRICA________human begins their
struggle to survive.
• What are 2 features of those first humans described in the video?
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2 inches taller than the average American
A natural athlete
A born hunter
Good vision, accurately judge distance
Dexterous hands
Speed on two legs
• Why does man need to invent tools?
– Weapons make you more powerful
– Tools make the man better
– Need to be on two feet and free your hands
• The greatest key to our survival is the use of
___FIRE_______.
• Name two ways fire helps our survival.
– Cooking food
– Protection from predators
• What benefit does cooking food have for human
development?
– Easier to digest food which means we can have a
smaller stomach
– Smaller stomachs mean our brain can have more
ability to grow bigger, make more connections
• 70,000 years ago, humans begin to MIGRATE out of
Africa.
• Over 50,000 years, mankind begins to settle in Middle
East, Asia, Australia, and Europe.
• The Ice Age begins due to a shift of the planet away from
the sun. How did early humans survive the Ice Age.
– Live in caves for protection
– Clothing created for protection from the cold
• What do the cave paintings show us?
– First display of sense of identity
– Shows evidence of survival
• By 10,000 BCE, human population reaches 1 million.
• What part of the world begins the agricultural revolution?
Middle East
• People settle where food can be grown- Fertile Land
• The foundation of our modern world is planting the first
seed.
• An acre of land can feed 100 times more people as
hunting and gathering.
• What is the first crop to conquer the globe? WHEAT
• Taming and breeding animals is the key to growing
populations.
• TRUE or FALSE. Farmers had a shorter life span than
hunters. Explain why this is. Farmers would fight
over their land. Land equals survival.
The First
Humans
Hominids are the family of
mankind
and his or her relatives.
TRACING THE MIGRATION (MOVEMENT) OF EARLY HUMANS
ACCORDING TO THE MAP, WHERE DID EARLY HUMANS ORIGIN?
AFRICA
KEY UNDERSTANDINGS:
WHAT DOES MIGRATION MEAN?
• MIGRATION IS MOVING FROM ONE PLACE TO
ANOTHER
NAME TWO REASONS WHY EARLY HOMINIDS
MIGRATED FROM AFRICA.
• 1) Food
2) Climate
HOW DID EARLY HOMINIDS MOVE FROM
CONTINENT TO CONTINENT?
• They built rafts or walked over glaciered land bridges
between the continents before the end of the Ice Age.
Very Early Humans
It was during this time that the higher
primates, including apes and early man,
first appeared.
There was a difference between apes
and man. Early human-like hominids
could stand upright. Apes could not.
Their hands were different, too.
Ape hands were made for climbing
and clinging. Man’s hands were
jointed differently, which allowed
them to make and use tools.
First Humans
www.sonoma.edu/.../ anclub/neanderfacts.html
• Characteristics
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Powerful jaw
Receding chins
Low foreheads
Heavy eyebrows
*NOTES*
LOUIS & MARY LEAKEY (1903-1972) Kenyan archaeologists who began
looking for early human remains in East
Africa. They found many tools, bones &
other artifacts.
DONALD JOHANSON - (1974)
archaeologist who found “Lucy”, a
part of an early human skeleton in
Ethiopia
"Lucy" skeleton,
Australopithecus
afarensis, about
2.6 million years
ago.
Archaeologist Mary Leaky
STANDARDS FOR BEING HUMAN:
1. 90cc skull size
2. Upright vertebrate
3. Thumb for tool making
Stage 1-Homo Habilis“Handy Man”
First to
make
stone
tools
2.5
million
years Ago
Stage 2- Homo Erectus
• 1.5 million BC –
250,000 BC
• 1st to use fire
• May have had
spoken language
HOMO ERECTUS 
“upright man”
• 1st hominid to
migrate out of
Africa
Upright Man
Many years passed. Another group of man was born.
Scientists nicknamed this group “Upright Man”. Upright
Man did know how to make fire.
That changed everything!
People began to cook their food,
which helped to reduce disease.
People collected around the fire
each night, to share stories of the
day's hunt and activities, which
helped to develop a spirit of
community.
Upright Man
These Stone Age people were about the
same size as modern humans.
Their tool-making skills were considerably
improved. Their weapons included stone
axes and knives.
Because Upright Man could make fire,
he was free to move about in search
of food. He did not have to worry
about freezing. He made warm clothes
from animal skins. At night, he built a
campfire to cook his food and to stay
warm.
Man Leaves Home
About one million years ago, Upright Man
began to slowly leave Africa. These early
people began to populate the world.
They did not need a boat. The Ice Age
was here! They traveled across giant
walkways of frozen ice, over what later
would become vast rivers and seas.
Scientists have found artifacts of their
tools and weapons, which help us to
understand how they lived, where they
went, and how they got there.
Stage 3- Homo Sapiens
• 250,000 BC -
•Neanderthals
30,000 BC
• HOMO SAPIENS
 “wise
humans”
•Cro-Magnons
Neanderthals
• Scientists once
thought that
Neanderthals were
ancestors of modern
humans but no longer
do.
• These hominids
appeared 200,000
years ago.
• About 30,000 years
ago, though, the
Neanderthals
strangely
disappeared.
• 1st to bury
their dead
• Religious
beliefs
• Clothes made
of animal skin
Neanderthals
*Neanderthals were different from other
species of early humans.
*They were tall and smart
* lived in caves
*They were great hunters.
Considering how smart they were, and
how advanced for their time, scientists
are puzzled that the Neanderthals were
one of the early species of man to die
out. Many species of man died out in
these early days. But why the
Neanderthals? It is a history mystery.
Cro-Magnons- Homo
Sapiens
• 30,000-8000 BC
• Replaced
Neanderthals
• Fully
modern
human
Cro-Magnon Man
Another group of early men stood out during
this period. Scientists nicknamed this group
“Cro-Magnon man”.
Cro-Magnon man lived in Europe.
This group did not live a life of
constant struggle for survival because
they worked together to provide food
for their tribe.
Cro-Magnon Man
These Stone Age people learned to cure and store food
for the long winter.
They used traps, which allowed them to catch food while
they were busy doing something else. Fisherman used
nets woven from vines and fishhooks.
Some groups built rafts and canoes
to catch bigger fish in deeper waters.
They made clothing and
jewelry.
They invented the bow
and arrow.
Cro-Magnons
• About 10,000 years before Neanderthals vanished,
the Cro-Magnons appeared.
• Their bodies were just like those of modern people.
• Scientists think that these people worked with one
another in planning large-scale hunts of animals.
• They may have also had more skill at speaking than
Neanderthals.
• Because they had these skills, the Cro-Magnons were
better at finding food. That may explain why CroMagnons survived and Neanderthals did not.
•During this
time people
found shelter
in caves and
left behind
very
interesting
artifacts
Cave Paintings
Cro-Magnon man did something rather unusual. For
some reason, he drew paintings deep inside dark caves,
on cave walls.
His paintings were added to the
paintings already on the cave walls,
left by other Cro-Magnon men.
Over time, a cave
might accumulate
hundreds of paintings.
Colors used most often
were brown, yellow/tan,
dark red, and coal black.