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Australopithecus
1.Habitat %u2013 The Australopithecus were widespread in Africa and inhabited parts of Asia. They are thought to have lived in the savannahs of Africa. 2.Food %u2013 Their teeth were covered in thin enamel, suggesting it ate mainly vegetation. -
4.2 and 3.9 million years ago
3.Physical Characteristic %u2013 It walked on two legs making it a hominid. Their skulls were still apelike. 4.Abilities %u2013 The Australopithecus had the advanced ability to use tools and had the ability to carry food. 5.Culture %u2013 They roamed the savannahs in search of -
Homo habilis
1.Habitat %u2013 Homo Habilis lived in the savannahs of Africa and spread into some parts of Asia. 2.Food %u2013 There is evidence that Homo Habilis scavenged dead animals that had been killed and partially eaten by other creatures. -
homo habilis
3.Physical Characteristic %u2013 The face is still primitive and projecting, but the jaw is pulled under the brain with a distinctive rounded shape. A male Habilis may have stood at around 1.3 meters and weighed 37 kilos, and females 1.2 meters and 32 kilos. However, some forms of Habilis were apparently smaller, and may have stood little more than a meter tall. -
2.4 and 1.5 million years ago
4.Abilities %u2013 Homo Habilis has the ablity of minor speak and can make tools of Stone or quartz (hence the name "handy man"). They used rounded hammer stones and used bones for digging. Though odd stones or pieces of bone may have been used as weapons or scrapers much earlier, tools begin to show up regularly near dismembered animal remains. 5.Culture %u2013 The Homo Habilis doesn%u2019t differ much from that of the Australopithecus, but Homo Habilis did have larger groups that the Australopithecus. -
Homo Erectus 1 and 1.5 million
1.Habitat %u2013 The Homo erectus had spread from Africa to parts of Asia and Europe. 2.Food %u2013 The wear on the teeth of Homo erectus indicates a varied diet including meat. A female skeleton from 1.6 million years ago has symptoms of hypervitaminosis, ie excess of vitamin A from eating liver. -
1 and 1.5 millon years ago
3.Physical Characteristic %u2013 fully adapted to walking upright on two legs, with a brain case only slightly smaller than modern humans, but still had some ape-like features such as a low forehead, heavy jaw and large teeth. 4.Abilities %u2013 They were tool users, and could harness fire, it is thought they could work the soil for foods. 5.Culture %u2013 The Homo erectus traveled about in search of foods following animal herds, by now they have a distinct diet of meat. They also traveled in large groups. -
Neanderthal
1.Habitat %u2013 The Neanderthal had lived in colder climates of Europe. 2.Food %u2013 The very oldest Neanderthals were likely scavengers, who recovered food from other animals. However, by the late Middle Paleolithic, Neanderthals are thought to have become adept with using a spear in close-quarters hunting strategies. 3.Physical Characteristic %u2013 Neanderthals walked upright, and had hands, feet and body forms similar to Modern humans. They had a big brain, like we do. -
200,000-28,000 years ago
4.Abilities %u2013 all-purpose scrapers and tools made from stone flakes. Neanderthals did have some control of fire. 5.Culture %u2013 Some evidence of purposeful burial, perhaps some grave goods, but this is rare and controversial as yet. Neanderthals apparently lived in small nuclear families. There is clearly evidence for some amount of social networking, including interaction between families or neighboring groups. -
Cro Magnon
1.Habitat %u2013 The Cro Magnon were a semi-nomadic tribes man, this species traveled to most parts of the world and started some of the first civilizations. 2.Food %u2013 They had a balanced diet of meat, grain, wild carrot, beetroot, onion, turnip and other foods 3.Physical Characteristic %u2013 They were tall like modern humans, their skull had no brow ridges, was thin, rounded, with a high forehead, with a projecting chin. Average brain size: about 1,350 milliliters (same as today). As their oral anatom -
45,000 to 10,000 years ago
4.Abilities %u2013 The remains of tools suggest that they knew how to make woven clothing. They made outline cave wall drawings of woolly rhinos, mammoths, cave lions and cave bears. 5.Culture %u2013 Surviving Cro-Magnon artifacts include huts, cave paintings, carvings and antler-tipped spears. These early humans used manganese and iron oxides to paint pictures and may have created the first calendar around 15,000 years ago.
