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Early Human Society

The Earliest Human Societies

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any object made by human beings, especially with a view to subsequent use. artifact
any remains, impression, or trace of a living thing of a former geologic age, as a skeleton, footprint, etc. fossil
hominids
Paleolithic Age
Mesolithic Age
latest part of the Stone Age beginning about 10,000 BC in the Middle East Neolithic Age
first or highest in rank or importance; chief; principal: his primary goals in life primary source
belonging or pertaining to a second order, division, stage, period, rank, grade, etc. secondary source
an extinct genus of small-brained,large-toothed bipedal hominids that lived in Africa between one and four million years ago. Australopithecus
an extinct species of upright East African hominid having some advanced humanlike characteristics, dated as being from about 1.5 million to more than 2 million years old and proposed as an early form of Homo leading to modern humans. Homo habilis
an extinct species of the human lineage, formerly known as Pithecanthropus erectus, having upright stature and a well-evolved postcranial skeleton, but with a smallish brain, low forehead, and protruding face. Homo erectus
an Upper Paleolithic population of humans, regarded as the prototype of modern Homo sapiens in Europe. Skeletal remains found in an Aurignacian cave in southern France indicate that the Cro-Magnon had long heads, broad faces, and sunken eyes, and reached Cro-Magnon
( italics ) the species of bipedal primates to which modern humans belong, characterized by a brain capacity averaging 1400 cc (85 cubic in.) and by dependence upon language and the creation and utilization of complex tools. Homo sapiens
Luis & Mary Leakey
Great Rift Valley
Donald (Don)Johanson
"Lucy"
culture
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