History: Human evolution

By VALENTINO
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Q1: Living Space: In today’s man the fruit of a long evolution?
Why?
Human evolution is the lengthy process of change by which people originated
from apelike ancestors. Scientific evidence shows that the physical and
behavioral traits shared by all people originated from apelike ancestors and evolved
over a period of approximately six million years
Human evolution is the evolutionary process within the history of primates that led
to the emergence of Homo sapiens as a distinct species of the hominid family,
which includes the great apes.

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Q2:Living space: Does the earth’s population begin in Africa or
Asia? Justify?
The first humans emerged in Africa around two million years ago, long before the modern
humans known as Homo sapiens appeared on the same continent.
The fossils of early humans who lived between 6 and 2 million years ago come entirely from
Africa. Most scientists currently recognize some 15 to 20 different species of early humans
Early Human migration

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Q3:Living space: During the Paleolithic what was the main
occupation of these Man?
The Paleolithic people were grouped into small societies survived by hunting and gathering
They practiced fishing, hunting or scavenging wild animals and gathering resources from
plants

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after during the Neolithic periods
In the Paleolithic period (roughly 2.5 million years ago to 10,000 B.C.), early
humans lived in caves or simple huts or tepees and were hunters and gatherers.
They used basic stone and bone tools, as well as crude stone axes, for hunting
birds and wild animals.
Paleolithic humans lived a nomadic lifestyle in small groups. They used primitive
stone tools and their survival depended heavily on their environment and climate.
Neolithic humans discovered agriculture and animal husbandry, which allowed them
to settle down in one area.
The Neolithic Revolution started around 10,000 B.C. in the Fertile Crescent, a
boomerang-shaped region of the Middle East where humans first took up farming

Neolithic

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Q5: Living space: What does man invent and why?During the Paleolithic and
after during the Neolithic period.Was it as response to needs? Explain

In the Paleolithic period man invented stone tools which consisted of sharp flints which
were sourced and used on their natural state in order to defend and hunt.
During the Neolithic period the main invention was the wheel. The wheel was used in horse
carts to carry heavy loads.

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Q6: Social relations: Little by little how do men organize themselves
Based on the experiences of modern hunter-gatherer societies, who typically have
around 500 members, and based on theoretical mathematical models of group
process, Paleolithic bands of people were likely around twenty-five members
each, and typically about twenty bands constituted a tribe.
Then progressively in Neolithic period the first communities lived in densely built
settlements and numbered 50-300 individuals. During the Pre-Pottery, Early and
Middle Neolithic, the basic unit of society was the clan or extended family that
consisted of parents, children, grandparents and other close kinship.

Social relations evolution from Paleolithic to Neolithic

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Q7: How they see the world : Do early men have beliefs? Why
Prehistoric evidence of religion. The exact time when humans first became
religious remains unknown, however research in evolutionary archaeology shows
credible evidence of religious-cum-ritualistic behavior from around the Middle
Paleolithic era (45–200 thousand years ago)
Neolithic people had beliefs in the sun, the moon and the natural elements on which
their harvest and sustenance depended.

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Q8: How they see the world : Do early men have artistic conception
By drawing something, an early human could make another human remember
something. Various forms of drawing, painting, and other visual depictions almost
certainly facilitated communication and education among early humans
At least 45,500 years ago, a human hand had painted the pigs in ochre, making
them the oldest known examples of figurative art by at least several thousand years
—and, by some standards, the oldest artwork in the world