HIST 11051 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Homo Erectus, Stone Age, Australopithecus
28 Apr 2019
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Pre-history, paleolithic and neolithic societies to the rise of cities, evolution of. Flourished 1. 5 million to 200,000 years ago, east africa: the term means "upright walking human" Large brain allowed for different functions: sophisticated tools, definitely knew how to control fire, developed language skills. Migrations of homo erectus: 500,000 to 200,000 years ago, first migrated to north africa. Later migrated to asia and europe: family trees, paleolithic age, homo sapiens. Evolved as early as 250,000 years ago. Brain with large frontal regions for conscious and reflective thought. The advantages of intelligence over other species: migrations of homo sapiens. Beginning more than 100,000 years ago, spread throughout eurasia. Several ice ages between 120 and 25 thousand years ago. Land bridges enabled them to populate islands of indonesia, new guinea. Arrived in australia at least 60,000 or perhaps as long as 120,000 years ago. Between 40,000 and 25,000 years ago, migrated to north america. Homo sapiens used knives, spears, bows, and arrows.
