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| 250487807 | Hominids | Located in southern and eastern Africa, these primates lived over 3m years ago. Mary and Louis Leakey discovered the first fossil of these primates in 1974. Different from earlier primates, they walked upright and could formulate speech. | 0 | |
| 250487808 | Paleolithic Era (750,000 to 250,000 years ago) | During the Paleolithic period, the economy was based on hunting and gathering as this was before the establishment of agrarian practices. Paleolithic society was a collection of clans based on extended families. They followed a polytheistic faith, practiced art and music through cave paintings and the hunting and gathering was done respectively by men and women. | 1 | |
| 250487809 | Homo Sapiens | Homo sapiens refers to human beings, the earliest forms of whom included Neanderthal and Cro-Magnon . They were known for their use of tools, clothing and dwellings. | 2 | |
| 250487810 | Hunting and gathering | Typical prior to the formation of settlements, hunting and gathering was seen in early civilizations prior to the development of established agriculture and the domestication of animals. Targeted animals could be anything that hunters were game enough (no pun intended) to tackle. The other major component of their diet was plant and vegetation. | 3 | |
| 250487811 | Aborigines (c.45000 BCE) | It is thought that the first Australians arrived on the continent some 50,000 years ago. Hunters and gatherers, they traveled in clans that followed a patrilineal line of descent. The passed down their heritage, culture and history through "dreaming" as part of a concept known as Dreamtime. Prior to European arrival, it is speculated that anywhere from 300,000 to one million Aborigines lived in Australia. However, disease and brutality dwindled their numbers significantly. By the turn of the 21st century, it is thought that there is about 400,000 Aborigines but their culture has been severely compromised and many have integrated into Australian society. | 4 |
