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What does it mean to be “Human?”

What does it mean to be “Human?”. Human Origins: Our Distant Past. Mary & Louis Leakey. Olduvai Gorge: The Cradle of Mankind. Northern Tanzania 30 miles long 295 ft deep 5.3 Million years ago. Laetoli Fossil Footprints. 3.6 million years old Earliest evidence of bipedal walking.

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What does it mean to be “Human?”

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  1. What does it mean to be “Human?”

  2. Human Origins: Our Distant Past

  3. Mary & Louis Leakey

  4. Olduvai Gorge: The Cradle of Mankind • Northern Tanzania • 30 miles long • 295 ft deep • 5.3 Million years ago

  5. Laetoli Fossil Footprints • 3.6 million years old • Earliest evidence of bipedal walking

  6. Donald Johanson: “Lucy”

  7. The Early Hominids

  8. Australopithecine • Means, “Southern Ape” • Appeared in Africa 4-5 million years ago • Stood upright and walked on two legs • Brain: 1/3 size of modern human

  9. Homo Habilis • Means: “Handy Man” • Appeared in Africa 2.4 million years ago • Used crude stone tools • Brain: ½ side of modern humans

  10. Homo Erectus • Means: “upright man” • Appeared: 2-1.5 million years ago • Early stone tools (i.e., hand axe) • Learned to control fire • Migrated out of Africa

  11. Homo Sapiens • Means, “Wise Man” • Appeared in Africa about 200,000 years ago • Migrated around the world • Wide range of tools • Created fire • Developed language

  12. Homo Neanderthalensis vs. Homo sapiens

  13. Out of Africa: Migrations of Homo sapiens Siberia 40,000 years ago Europe 40,000 years ago North America 12,000-30,000 years ago Oceania 1600 B.C.E.-500 C.E. Southwest Asia 100,000 years ago Australia as many as 60,000 years ago Chile 12,000-13 ,000 years ago Human Origins 200,000-250,000 years ago Possible coastal routes of human migration Possible landward routes of human migration Migrations in Oceania

  14. Paleolithic People: Culture Begins • Nomadic • Hunter-gatherers

  15. Paleolithic Art and Religion • Buried the Dead • Cave Paintings • Animism: a belief in a spiritual world

  16. Paleolithic Technology • Crude chipped stones • Over time, better tools were developed • More refined • More specialized

  17. What does it mean to be “Human?”

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