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paleoanthropology |
The study of early humans |
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hominid |
The common name for humans and their ancestors |
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bipedalism |
walking upright on two legs |
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Lucy |
The world’s most famous early human ancestor |
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Donald Johanson |
One of the most accomplished scholars of human origins, discovered Lucy. |
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Fossil |
The remains of living things |
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Artifact |
The remains of things that were made |
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Australopithecine |
Human-like hominids (Lucy) Could stand up and walk on 2 legs (bipedal) difference between early man and apes are the hands |
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Homo habilis |
“Handy man” 1st true humans 1st tool maker lived in Africa Taller, and had a larger brain |
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Homo erectus |
“Upright man” Made and controlled fired 1st hunters traveled over land bridges from Africa to begin to populate the world, about 1 million years ago |
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Homo sapiens |
“Wise Man” and Neandertals Neanderthals buried their dead with ceremony Stone-tipped spears, bone needles, bone fish hooks sewed their clothes from animal skins, warm boots |
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Homo sapiens sapiens |
“Moderns” and Cro-Magnon Cave Paintings Bow and arrows, well constructed huts with central hearths for fires necklaces and pendants, cave art, little statues made from ivory, antler and bone tools and weapons for hunting and fishing oil lamps used honey to sweeten food End of the last Ice Age about 10,000 years ago |
