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African Beginnings

African Beginnings. Take out your vocabulary sheets and stories. What is a hominid? What was the Paleolithic Era? What does it mean to migrate?. Do Now. Earliest hominids may have lived in Africa between 4.5 million and 1 million years ago (australopithecines)

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African Beginnings

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  1. African Beginnings

  2. Take out your vocabulary sheets and stories. What is a hominid? What was the Paleolithic Era? What does it mean to migrate? Do Now

  3. Earliest hominids may have lived in Africa between 4.5 million and 1 million years ago (australopithecines) • Donald Johnson discovered “Lucy” Early Mankind

  4. Lucy

  5. Walked on 2 legs, leaving hands free • Some lived in forests, others lived in open grasslands • Those in the grasslands moved in search of food and ate different plants and perhaps more meat • Lead to larger brain size, grew larger and stronger, formed longer legs Australopithecines

  6. 2.5 million years ago (Africa) • Discovered by the Leakey family • Larger brain, rounder skull, face and jaw smaller • Paleolithic Era: chipped stone tools • “Handy person” Homo habilis

  7. Chipped stone tools

  8. 1.9 million years ago (Kenya) • “Upright Person” • Larger, stronger, bigger brain • Stone hand axes • Fire • Language • Migration Homo Erectus

  9. Look at the map on pages 18 and 19 of your textbook to answer these questions: • On which continent were the remains of the first hominids found? • Which group is the only one to migrate outside Africa? • According to the map, where else did these hominids settle? • How do you think migration helped to set this hominid apart from others? Activity

  10. What was the name of the first type of hominid to exist? • What did Donald Johnson name his discovery? • Which hominid definition means “Handy person?” • Which hominid definition means “Upright person?” Wrap Up

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