The document discusses several key topics in early human history and evolution:
1. It outlines the major stages in human evolution from primates emerging 36 million years ago to hominoids emerging between 24-5.6 million years ago to hominids evolving between 5.6-1.8 million years ago.
2. It describes two competing theories for the origin of modern humans - the regional continuity model which argues humans originated in different regions, and the replacement model which argues humans originated from a single region in Africa.
3. It discusses how early humans obtained food through gathering, hunting, scavenging and fishing, with hunting emerging around 500,000 years ago based on archaeological evidence.
The document discusses several key topics in early human history and evolution:
1. It outlines the major stages in human evolution from primates emerging 36 million years ago to hominoids emerging between 24-5.6 million years ago to hominids evolving between 5.6-1.8 million years ago.
2. It describes two competing theories for the origin of modern humans - the regional continuity model which argues humans originated in different regions, and the replacement model which argues humans originated from a single region in Africa.
3. It discusses how early humans obtained food through gathering, hunting, scavenging and fishing, with hunting emerging around 500,000 years ago based on archaeological evidence.
The document discusses several key topics in early human history and evolution:
1. It outlines the major stages in human evolution from primates emerging 36 million years ago to hominoids emerging between 24-5.6 million years ago to hominids evolving between 5.6-1.8 million years ago.
2. It describes two competing theories for the origin of modern humans - the regional continuity model which argues humans originated in different regions, and the replacement model which argues humans originated from a single region in Africa.
3. It discusses how early humans obtained food through gathering, hunting, scavenging and fishing, with hunting emerging around 500,000 years ago based on archaeological evidence.
The document discusses several key topics in early human history and evolution:
1. It outlines the major stages in human evolution from primates emerging 36 million years ago to hominoids emerging between 24-5.6 million years ago to hominids evolving between 5.6-1.8 million years ago.
2. It describes two competing theories for the origin of modern humans - the regional continuity model which argues humans originated in different regions, and the replacement model which argues humans originated from a single region in Africa.
3. It discusses how early humans obtained food through gathering, hunting, scavenging and fishing, with hunting emerging around 500,000 years ago based on archaeological evidence.
1 . Discoveries of human fossils,stone tools and cave
painting help us to under stand Early human history. 2. Fossils are the remains or impression of a very old human ,plant or animal which have turned into stone. 3. Stone tools made and use by early humans are available in various parts of Europe and AFRICA . 4. Paintings found on the wall of the caves in Europe and Africa are helping us to understand early human history...
The story of human
evolution 1. Between 36 million years ago and 24 million years ago primates, a category of mammals emerged in Asia and Africa. Primates are a subgroup of a larger group of mammals. They include monkeys, apes and humans. 2. Between 24MYAand 5.6MYA there emerged a subgroup amongst primates, called hominoids. Hominoids are different from monkeys in a number of ways. They have a larger body and do not have a tail. 3. Between 5.6MYAand 1.8 MYAhominidshave evolved from hominoids and share certaincommon features and have major differences as well.
The Replacement and Regional Continuity Model
Theories(OR) The Centre of Human Origin 1. The issue of the place of origin of modern humans has been much debated by the scholars. Two totally divergent views have been expounded, one advocating theregional continuity model(with multiple regions of origin), the otherthe replacement model(with a single origin in Africa). 2. According tothe regional continuity model, theHomo sapiens originatedin different regions (continents) and gradually evolved at different rates into modern humans. 3. The theory is based on the regional differences in the features of present-day humans such ascolour of skin, height, colour of hair etc. According to those who advocate this view, these dissimilarities are due to differences between the pre-existingHomoerectusandHomo sapienspopulations that occupied the same regions. 4. According to the replacement model human beings first originatedin a single region, which is Africaand migrated to all the other regions (continents).
Early Humans: Ways of Obtaining
Food 1.Early humans would have obtained food through a number of ways, such asgathering, hunting, scavenging and fishing. 2.Gatheringwould involve collecting plant foods such as seeds, nuts, berries, fruits and tubers. That gathering was practiced individually rather than collectively. 3.Huntingprobably began later about 500,000 years ago. The earliest clear evidence for the deliberate, planned hunting and butchery of large mammals comes from two sites: Boxgrove in southern England and Schoningen in Germany. .
Early Humans: Making Tools
1.The use of tools and tool making are not confined to humans. Some chimpanzees use tools that they have made. Certainanatomical and neurological(related to the nervous system) adaptations have led to the skilled use of hands and fingers favored tool making by the early humans. 2.Moreover, the ways in which humans use and make tools often require greater memory and complex organizational skills, both of which were present in humans. 3.We do not know whether toolmaking was done by men or women or both. It is possible that stone tool makers were both women and men. Women in particular may have made and used tools to obtain food for them as well as to sustain their children after weaning.
Modes of Communication: Language
1.There are several views on language development. The first user of language was the hominid. The hominid language involvedgestures or hand movements. 2.Later they developed another way of communication known asvocal but non-verbal communicationsuch as singing or humming. 3.Another suggestion is that language developed around the same time as art, that is, around 40,000-35,000 years ago. The development ofspoken language has been seen as closely connected with art, since both are media for communication.