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Great Human
Accomplishments
1. STOOD UPRIGHT
• Freed the hands to gather food
http://iws.ccccd.edu/mbailey/prehi
story%20with%20cartoons.htm
2. USED TOOLS
• Hominids found rocks and sticks in
their environment and figured out how
to use them to help them find food.
4. CREATED/MADE TOOLS
• Hominids took natural objects and then
changed them and improved them to help
them do work.
– Rocks with a sharpened edge for
cutting.
4. SWEATING AND LONG
DISTANCE RUNNING
• Humans could run after fast moving prey
for long periods of time
• and tire them out making it possible to
catch and kill them.
• https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=826HM
LoiE_o
5. CONTROLLED FIRE
• Gave us warmth (could move out of
Africa)
• Provided protection from large nocturnal
predators.
6. LANGUAGE AND ART
• With language humans could
communicate complex ideas to one
another and pass knowledge from one
person to another.
• Art gave humans a way to leave messages
for other people to see and understand
even if they weren’t there.
• Sci Show
• Did Cooking make us human??? (3:00)