LEARN ABOUT HUMAN EVOLUTION IDENTIFY THE PERIODS OF PREHISTORY AND STUDY THEIR CHARACTERISTICS LEARN WHEN HUMANS BEGAN TO USE METALS WORK OUT HISTORICAL PERIODS AND DATES USE INTERNET SOURCES ON PREHISTORY IN SPAIN
PREHISTORY INCLUDES THE STUDY OF HOMINIDS, THE EARLY PRIMATES
AS HOMINIDS LEARNED TO WALK UPRIGHT ON TWO LEGS, THEIR HANDS BECAME FREE TO USE TOOLS THE SKULLS OF HOMINIDS GREW BIGGER AND THEIR BRAIN SIZE ALSO INCREASED. THIS HELPED THEM TO THINK CREATIVELY, TO ACQUIRE LANGUAGE AND TO COMMUNICATE
Fossil remains of the earliest hominids were found in several sites in the Rift Valley in East Africa. Some hominids lived in Africa more than 4 million years ago.
EVOLUCIĂ“N DEL SER HUMANO 4:53
I am the Homo Habilis, Who are you?
Homo habilis, Spanish , 10´
ARE WE IN THE RIGHT PLACE????
And I am the Homo Erectus, the one who Early humans hunted, fished invented the fire, do andyou gathered fruit how remember much improvement did we get with this They were nomads who invention‌? moved around in groups to find food. They lived in simple shelters and sometimes in caves
They made stone tools
I am the Homo antecessor from They practised rituals to protect Atapuerca (Burgos, themselves against natural Spain) I am a direct dangers like lightning ancestor of the Homo Sapiens They painted animals onand caves Homo Neanderthal using natural materials like coal, blood and plants It is possible that they believed that painting was magical and led to successful hunting They also made statues of women. These were so exaggerated that is believed they were probably fertility symbols
HOMANISATION LAST CHAPTER
LINK BETWEEN H. ANTECESSOR AND H. NEANDERTHALENSIS
THE NEOLITHIC AGE
AT THE BEGINNING OF THIS PERIOD, THE EARTH´S CLIMATE BECAME WARMER. THE ICE THAT COVERED PARTS OF THE EARTHS´S SURFACE MELTED, SO PEOPLE LIVED IN NEW TYPES OF LANDSCAPES. THIS LED TO MANY CHANGES
TEXTILES AND BASKETS WERE INVENTED
LIFE STYLE IN THE GROUPTHE WORK: HOW MANY DIFFERENT NEOLITHIC AGE ACTIVITIES CAN YOU IDENTIFY -OR GUESSTHEY ARE DOING?
YES, THEY BECAME… SEDENTARY POPULATION INCREASED BECAUSE PEOPLE ATE BETTER FOOD
WHEN SETTLEMENTS PRODUCED MORE THAN THEY NEEDED, THEY EXCHANGED PRODUCTS WITH OTHER SETTLEMENTS. THIS IS THE BEGINNING OF TRADE
NEOLITHIC CULTURE
THE METAL AGES
THESE PERIODS DID NOT BEGIN AT THE SAME TIME IN ALL PARTS OF THE WORLD
THE METAL AGES
METAL WORKING WAS COMPLEX, SO WORKERS BECAME MORE SPECIALISED METAL TOOLS, SUCH AS THE PLOUGH, IMPROVED TECHNIQUES IN AGRICULTURE PEOPLE WHO HAD METAL WEAPONS, LIKE SWORDS AND SPEARS, ACQUIRED GREATER POWER. SETTLEMENTS NEEDED WALLS FOR PROTECTION INCREASED TRADE, AND THE INVENTION OF MONEY, LED TO GREATER SOCIAL DIFFERENCES BETWEEN THE RICH AND POOR
LIFE STYLE IN THE METAL AGES
MENHIRS WERE SINGLE, STANDING STONES. THEY WERE OFTEN ALIGNED IN LONG LINES BELIEFS AND ART DURING THE METAL AGES
DOLMENS WERE GROUPS OF VERTICAL STONES COVERED BY LARGE HORIZONTAL STONES. THE SPACE INSIDE WAS USED FOR BURIALS
CROMLECHS WERE GROUPS OF MENHIRS DISPLAYED IN CIRCLES