The first cave paintings were discovered in 1940 by four boys, who were hunting

hunting in France and discovered the paintings on the cave wall. The Lascaux cave paintings are believed to be 16 to 17,000 years old. The cave paintings showed what prehistoric people hunted for food. Some of the animals that were painted on the walls were deer, oxen,bull,horses, and even rhinoceros. They also showed that the weapon hunters used were spears. The paintings were colorful and life like. In order to do these cave paintings they used lanterns filled with animal fat to light their way into the cave. Some of the chambers that they drew took hours of crawling threw air tight tunnels. one of scientists theory's is that the men drew what they wanted to catch on the hunt. the colors of theses magnificent cave paintings were red, brown and yellow ochres of iron and black from charcoal. The tools they used to do these painting were brushes made of burnt sticks, they also blew paint from their finger on to the rock by using their mouth. Designs were sometimes made by flint tools in which they engraved the walls with. The paintings were mostly of what they hunted like mammoth, deer, horses, wild cattle, bison, and rhinoceros. There were not many human figures painted on the walls. In two caves they left a symbol by blowing paint around their hands to leave an outline. The oldest cave painting is thought to be 30,000 years old. We still do not know why these people painted and we probly never will.

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2. How humans lived in Africa a long time ago.



3.Artifacts- artifacts are remains such as jewelry, tools and other man made objects.
Culture- peoples unique way of life.
Technology- Things used and invented to meet needs

4. Scientists research our prehistory to find out about our ancestors and how they affect our life now.

5. Lucy is a 3 million year old female hominid skeleton found by Mary Leakey and her team of scientists in Africa.



6. Mary leaky is a history maker because she found the first humanoid. She discovered many things about our ancestors.



7. They stood up right so they could move faster. They could also spot predators and carry food for their children. They had opossable thumbs.



8. During the first stone age the first stone tools were made. During the new stone age they learned how to polish stone make pottery herd animals and plant crops. The first stone age was longer.



9. Homo Habilis was probably called the handy man because they were the first homo's to make tools



10. Homo erectus had tools made of stone and stick. We now in more modern times have tools made of metal and plastic that are more durable than what the used back then. They had spears and other non metal weapons. We have guns and lasers.

11. People think that neanderthals had religious beliefs because they held a funeral for one of their kind in a cave and covered his body with flowers.


12. They had strategy to hunt their prey and study the habitat of their prey. They also had a language to help them communicate that made survival easier

homo habilis

1.Homo Sapien- Homo Sapien also known as human lived 200,000 years ago. They first originated from Africa. They spoke a language. Their brains where highly developed.

2. Cro-Magnon- Cro-Magnons lived from about 45,000 to 10,000 years ago. They lived in Europe. The first skeleton was found in a cave.

3.Homo Habilis- Homo Habilis lived from 2.2 million years ago to 1.6 million years ago. Mary and Louis Leaky found first homo Habilis fossils in Africa.

4. Homo Erectus- Homo Erectus lived 1.8 million to 500 thousand years ago. They where the first hominids to leave Africa they moved into Europe and parts of Asia. They where the first hominids capable of complex activities.

5. Lucy- Lucy is a 3 million year old female hominid skeleton found by Mary Leakey and her team of scientists in Africa.

6. Neanderthal- Neanderthals appeared 350000 to 600000 years ago in Europe. They lived in Europe and western Asia. They had big foreheads and noses.

7. Humans are diffrent from animals because they walk on two legs and animals walk on four. Animals do not walk up right like humans do.We wear clothes unlike animals they have fir to keep them warm.