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Discovery of Lucy

• Donald Johanson + his team were searching for early human fossils

• 1974

• Ethiopia, Africa

• Found a partial Female Hominid skeleton (Lucy)

• 3.5 million years

Homo Habilis

• Man of SKILL

• Appeared 2.5 mya

• Tools found made of Lava Rock

• Used to cut meat and crack bones

Homo Erectus

• Appeared 1.6 mya

• UPRIGHT MAN

• Developed technology

• Ways of applying knowledge, tools + invents to meet their needs

• Developed language

• Communication allowed them to work together, plan hunting, exchange ideas.

Homo Sapiens

• WISE MEN

• Neanderthals

• 200,000 ya

• larger brains, powerfully built, developed religious beliefs, built shelters, survived the ice age.

• Mysteriously vanished 30,000 ya

Cro Magman

• Appeared 40,000-8,000 ya

• Identical to modern humans

• Planned hunts, studied animal behaviors

• Advanced spoken language would allow more difficult projects

• Population outgrew Neanderthals

• Their ability to problem solve would have given them a distinct advantage to overcome obstacles to survive

• Paintings , neanderthal bone flute