HIST-UA 101 Chapter 1: Chapter 1
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Prehistory - before written records were documented and preserved. An anthropologist studies early human beings and the way societies and cultures originate and are organized. An archaeologist studies the remains of ancient societies to learn about past life cultures. In 1977, mary and louis leakey explored the land of tanzania which is in east africa for clues about human origins. Australopithecines - these creatures were the first hominids or beings that can walk upright. **these footprints are significant because it proved that creatures walked upright and that it set hominids apart from other animals and the hominids eventually evolved to modern humans. (3. 6 million years ago) Fossils (preserved remains of once living organisms) and artifacts of culture) Australopithecines lived from 4 million to 1 million years ago. Most australopithecines range from 3 to 5 feet tall. Their brain size was 1/3 the size of a regular human.
