Prehistory extends from
the emergence of our first
ancestrors, about fve
million years ago, to de
invention of writting, about
5milion years
ago.Consequently , they
whwere NO WRITTING
TEXTS DURING THIS PERIOD.
Prehistory is the
longest period in
human history
WIICH ARE THE PREHISTORIC
PERIODS
Paleolithic: started with the
appearance of our first
ancestrors(11000years
ago).Human beings lived form
hunting and gathering
Neolithic: started 11000 years
ago,human being started to live in
villages and They practised
agricultura and raised cattle.
Metal ages: began 7000
years ago , human beings
learned to use metalls and
to make objetos with it.
what were early human
beings like?
australophitecus: appeared
about 5 million years ago
they were very similar to
chimpanzees but they
normally walked on 2 feet
homo habilis: Appeared 2 million
years ago .Their brain was bigger,
their name"habilis" means
skillful.They made stone tools and
lived from hunting and gathering
homo herectus: appeared one and
a half million years ago. They
walked up right, it was the fist
specie to live outside africa , they
lived in Europe and Asia , they
discovered fire.
netherland man:.
the fist european: the first
human remains in europe
were found in Atapuerca,
,Spain. THey are 800000
years old and their name is
homo antecessor
netherlan was adifferent
species who lived in europe
150000 years ago. They were
stronger than us but they
were shorter. They were the
first species tu bury their
dead. It seams they were able
to speak.
homo sapiens:Appeareed in
Africa about 130000 years ago
.They were similar to Netherlands
but taller . They enjoyed gater
intellectual develoment. They were
able to make finer tools. They
developed a more complex
language, they learned to
cooperate , they also created art.
what is
atapuerca???
This Archelogical site is near
burgos in the north of Spain.
IT wa found accidentally in
the 19 century when a
trench of mining train was
being built.
Thanks to this site , we
know that there was a
European being called
homo antecessor who
lived about 800000
years ago
Excalibur was also
found in atapuerca , it
is an extraorddinaly
biface (tool) made of
stone . , it was found
whit 33 human
skeletons so perphaps
is a funeral offering.
in june 2007 , a 1.2
millions years old tooth
was found . This discovery
could mean that the first
European was not a Homo
antecessor but an older
relative.