Prehistory Flashcards

299229988	Homo habilis	"Handy man." East Africa, had larger brains and smaller faces	0
299229989	Homo erectus	"first upright man" - more intelligent and adaptable than homo habilis, skillful hunters, invented more sophsticated tools for digging, scapring, and cutting. first hominids to migrate, first to use fire, first to provide warmth, cook, and frighten away attacking animals. developed the beginning of spoken language, named objects, places, animals, and plant and exchanged ideas	1
299229990	Homo sapien	"Wise Man" Same species as modern man. Migrated around the world and could create fire. Used a wide variety of tools	2
299229991	Neanderthal	Lived in cold of europe, first to practice burial rituals (flowers, jewels, food in graves) earliest religious species, belief in afterlife	3
299229992	Cro-Magnons	The first modern humans in Europe (France), cave painting	4
299229993	Multiregional thesis	Theory, held by a minority of scholars, that modern humans appeared simultaneously throughout world, descending from earlier hominid groups that had already left Africa.	5
299229994	Recent-African Origin hypothesis	states that modern Homo sapiens originated in Africa only about 100,000 to 200,000 years ago and then, like Homo erectus before them, left Africa	6
299229995	Neothlithic	New Stone Age: technological change, domestication revolution, metallurgy, and agricultural revolution	7
299229996	Paleolithic	Old Stone Age: Tool-making, life styles, the first art	8
299229997	Mesolithic	proposed by many historians/not accepted by all, transition from ice age to warmer climate, advanced stone and wood structures	9