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Outcome: Human Origins in Africa

Origins of Agriculture, Culture, & Civilization. Outcome: Human Origins in Africa. Science vs. Religion. Human Origins in Africa. Setting the Stage: Who are we? No written history to study Important: The story is not complete

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Outcome: Human Origins in Africa

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  1. Origins of Agriculture, Culture, & Civilization Outcome: Human Origins in Africa

  2. Science vs. Religion

  3. Human Origins in Africa • Setting the Stage: Who are we? • No written history to study • Important: The story is not complete • Evolution vs. Creationism- We will not take a side but simply look at what has been found.

  4. Search for Evidence

  5. KT Asteroid

  6. Human Origins in Africa • Scientists Search for Human Origins • Prehistory: Time before written history, roughly 5,000 years ago • For thousands of years people have recorded information about their beliefs, activities, and important events using varying forms of written language • Without written records, scientists face many challenges

  7. Human Origins in Africa • Scientific Clues • Scientists work like detectives uses excavated sites • Artifacts: human-made objects such as tool and jewelry are examined and studied • Anthropologists study culture or a people’s unique way of life • Paleontologists study fossils or evidence of early life preserved in rocks • From these clues anthropologists attempt to recreate a picture of early human’s cultural behavior

  8. Let’s test this idea

  9. Human Origins in Africa • Lucy • Unusually complete skeleton of female hominid • Discovered by Donald Johanson in 1974 • Named after Beatles song “Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds” • Dated to be 3.5 million years old

  10. Lucy

  11. Mary Leakey & the Laetoli Footprints

  12. Human Origins in Africa • Mary Leaky • Archeologist who led an expedition in Tanzania in East Africa • 1978 they discovered Laetoli Footprints made by humanlike beings now called australopithecines, a hominid • Humans and other creatures that walk upright are called hominids

  13. Human Origins in Africa • The Old Stone Age Begins • The invention of tools, mastery over fire and development of language are believed to have occurred during the Stone Age which has two parts: • Paleolithic Age: Old Stone Age roughly 2.5 million B.C. to 8000 B.C. • Neolithic Age: New Stone Age roughly 8000 B.C. to 3000 B.C. • People learned to polish stone tools, make pottery, grow crops and raise animals in New Stone Age

  14. Human Origins in Africa • Homo habilis, Homo erectus, Neanderthals, Cro-Magnons, and Homo sapiens • Timeline on p.8-9 • Developed technology or ways of applying knowledge, tools, and inventions to meet their needs • Evolutionists: Missing link? • Creationists discard this theory

  15. Human Origins in Africa • New Findings Add to Knowledge • Fossils, Tools, and Cave Paintings • Toumai Skull • 7 million year old skull found in northern Chad • Similar to chimpanzee • Is the skull human or ape? Needs further study

  16. Human Origins in Africa • AD actually stands for the Latin phrase "anno domini" which means "in the year of our Lord." The B.C. / A.D. dating system is not taught in the Bible. It actually was not fully implemented and accepted until several centuries after Jesus' death

  17. Human Origins in Africa • Roman Numerals

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