INTA 2040 Chapter Notes - Chapter 1,2,3: Parallel Evolution, Cave Painting, Ice Age
9 Jan 2017
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In the 13,000 years since the end of the last ice age, some parts of the world developed literate industrial with metal tools, other parts developed non-literate farming societies; others became hunter-gatherers with stone tools. Starting point to compare historical developments on different continents is around. Human history began in africa about 7 million years ago. African apes broke up into several populations: 1-modern gorilla 2-modern chimps 3- humans. The first human ancestor to spread beyond africa was homo erectus. (fossils discovered on the southeast asian island of java). The earliest evidence for humans in europe stems back around half a million years ago. African and european skulls of half a million years ago were similar to skulls of us moderns (homo sapiens, instead of homo erectus). After half a million years ago, the human populations of africa and western. Eurasia proceeded to diverge from each other and from east asian population in skeletal details.
