Easter Island is in the Pacific ocean. People on the Island made 900 statues as a symbol that the statue is protecting them. Chile owns Easter Island. Each statue is 13 feet and 13 tons. The name Easter Island comes from when the dutch came in 1722.
Shortest stone age period- Ice Ages ending Climate warms and glaciers melt, leaving more fertile land available. Sets the stage for the invention of farming!
Homo erectus- name means "upright Man" -Believed to be first to use fire -developed more technology for specific tasks -skillful hunters -spoken language -believed to be first to move out of africa
hominids- early homo sapiens Hunters/Gatherers Stone tools specific to job nomadic-had to follow migration of herds and ripening of wild grains made fire hunted in groups spoken language buried their dead cared for injured and sick survived Ice Age extinct or inter-breeding with Cro-magnon
begins with first simple stone tools Homo habilis probably first hominid to make and use stone tools (name means "man of skill")
Hominids Early homo sapiens hunters/gatherers nomadic- had to follow migration of herds and ripening of wild grains made fire cave paintings-stationary art tools, jewelry, and Venus statues- portable art skeletons the same as modern humans new specialized tools survived Ice Age
"Australopithecines- early bipeedal hominid "Mary leakey finds bipedal footprints of australopithecines " Don Johanson finds lucy
Ardi was the first hominid before Lucy because she is supposed to be 4.4 million years old and Lucy is only 4 million years old. She was discovered in the arad badlands in Ethiopia. She was supposed to be 110 pounds and 4 feet tall. She was discovered by Yohannes Haile-Selassie. Her diet consisted of nuts and fruits. no one knows if she was bipedal or not.
Otzi the Ice Man found with copper ax archaeologists had to set back the date of metal working by over 5,000 years oldest and best preserved mummy in the world Neolithic Homo sapien
Neolithic Revolution Invented farming and domesitcation of animals No longer nomadic- could stay in one place due to crops and domesticated animals began to make villages surplus food allows trade to begin specialization of labor better technology
