(Different
than ancient man)
| |
Neanderthal People |
Cro-Magnon People |
| When they lived |
200,000 B.C.- 30,000 B.C.? |
(may have been absorbed by
Cro-Magnon) |
30,000 B.C.-
10,000 B.C. |
| Physical characteristics |
powerfully built heavy
jaws, thick eyebrow ridges, large noses |
looked more like modern people; high
foreheads, well defined chins, small eyebrow ridges |
| Where they lived |
Europe, the Middle East,
Asia, lived in caves |
southern France and Spain; lived in
caves |
| Tools they used |
more efficient tools
than preceding groups used fire to develop new techniques for
fashioning bifacial tools, arrowheads and scrapers, implements
that were essential for the survival of his tribe. |
more advanced tools than Neanderthal
greater use of the animals he had hunted. The skins were used to
make clothes, antlers to make tool handles, needles and hooks and
he gradually began to farm the land and then to breed animals
(from 5000 BC). |
| Important Accomplishments |
wore clothes; cared for
the sick; buried the dead with tools; probably the first to
cook food |
invented the spear; better hunters,
could draw and paint,
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Homo-sapiens-means "wise man"
Homo-habilis- means "handy man" or man with ability 2 million
years ago used stone tools
Homo-erectus- means "the man who walks erect"
Current day man is called Homo sapiens sapiens
Australopithecus africanus- (Southern Ape of Africa)
Not a very good name because the skull found in 1924 was not an ape and we
now know that the Australopithecus lived in many places besides Africa.
Earliest finds were in Ethiopia and Tanzania in Africa all we know is that
they walked upright on two legs and used tools. The First real people have
been found in Java, Beijing, other parts of Asia, Europe and Africa and
probably lived in caves. They used stone tools, hunted animals and learned
to work together cooperation key to their success. |