Origins and Evidence: Studying Prehistory

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The Peopling of the World 5 MAIN IDEA WHY IT MATTERS NOW TERMS & NAMES INTERACTION WITH ENVIRONMENT Fossil evidence shows that the earliest humans originated in Africa and spread across the globe. The study of early human remains and artifacts helps in understanding our place in human history. • artifact • culture • hominid • Paleolithic Age • Neolithic Age • technology • Homo sapiens 1 Categorizing Use a diagram to list advances of each hominid group. TAKING NOTES Hominid GroupHominid Group Cro-Magnons SETTING THE STAGE What were the earliest humans like? Many people have asked this question. Because there are no written records of prehistoric peoples, scientists have to piece together information about the past. Teams of scientists use a variety of research methods to learn more about how, where, and when early humans developed. Interestingly, recent discoveries provide the most knowledge about human origins and the way prehistoric people lived. Yet, the picture of prehistory is still far from complete. Scientists Search for Human Origins Written documents provide a window to the distant past. For several thousand years, people have recorded information about their beliefs, activ...