Zusammenfassung der Ressource
PREHISTORY
- WHAT IS PREHISTORY?
- Prehistory extends from
emergence of our first
ancestors, about five million
years ago, to the invention of
writting, about 5.000 years
ago. There were no written
texts during this period.
- IS DIVIDED IN 3 PERIODS:
- PALAEOLITHIC
- 11.000 ago. Human
beings lived from
hunting and
gathering
- NEOLITHIC
- 11.OOO years ago.
Groups of human
beings started to
live in villages. They
practised
agriculture and
raised cattle.
- METAL
- 7.000 years ago. Human
beings learned to use
metals to make objects
- WHAT WERE EARLY HUMAN BEINGS LIKE?
- HOMO HABILIS
- These appeared 2.000.ooo
years ago. Their brain was
bigger. Their name `habilis´
means skilful. They made
stone tools and lived from
hunting and gathering.
- AUSTRALOPITHECUS
- These
appeared about
5.000.000 years
ago. They were
very similar to
chimpanzees.
However, the
Australopithecus
normally walked
on two feet.
- HOMO ERECTUS
- These appeared
1.500.ooo years
ago. They walked
upright. This was
the first species
to live outside
Africa. They lived
in Europe and
Asia. They
discoverd fire
- THE FIRST EUROPEANS
- · The oldest human
remains in Europe
appeared in
Atapuerca, Spain.
They are 800.000
years old and their
name is Homo
antecessor.
- · Neanderthals
were a different
species who lived
in Europe 150.000
years ago. They
were the first
species to bury
their dead. It
seems they were
able to speak.
- HOMO SAPIENS
- They started
130.000 years ago.
They developed a
more complex
lenguaje and they
strated to do art.