Early Human Migration

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• 1. What happened during the Ice Age?• About 1.6 million years ago, many places

around the world began to experience long periods of freezing weather.

• Huge sheets of ice covered much of the earth. • The Ice Ages ended about 10,000 years ago.

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• 2. What is a land bridge? How did it help people of the Stone Age?• A land bridge is a strip of land connecting two

continents.• Land bridges allowed Stone Age people to

migrate around the world.

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• 3. Where did the early hominids migrate from? Around how long ago did this happen?• Early hominids migrated from Africa to Asia as

early has 2 million years ago.

E. Africa

Europe

SouthwestAsia

South Asia

Australia

East Asia

North Asia

N. America

S. America

• 4. According to the map, which continent did humans reach first? How about last?

Migration Pattern

Paleolithic Age

• Prehistory (before writing)

• Hominids (early ancestor of humans)

• “Lucy”- 3 million years ago, small, walked on two legs

• Homo sapiens (modern human) around 200,000 years

• Tools used to process food but later developed to dig and spear animals

• Hunter-gatherer societies- men hunted, women gathered and took care of children

• Development of language and religion

Mesolithic Age

• Huge sheets of ice cover the earth

• People migrate to new places using the land bridge

• Used caves as shelter (or built their own)

• Sewed animal skins to make clothing

• Smaller and more complex tools (hooks, fishing spears, used bone and stone)

• New technology like canoes (hollowed logs)

• Kept pets (Dogs for protection and to hunt)

Similiarities

• Hominids/humans are migrating (different reasons?)

• Humans learn to adapt to their environments