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PREHISTORY

Prehistory is when there was no written records with later copies had been preserved.  To know about the past scientist use fossils and artifacts.  Prehistory is also the pre-literate historyof the known Homo Sapiens.  Prehistory than was divide into three sections.  They are the Stone Age, Bronze Age, and the Golden age.  Each period was named of their tool making abilities. Archeologist can not agree about when prehistory begin.  It could start at the Homo Sapiens of 100,000-200,000, first known tool makers near c. 2.5 million years ago, or the first Homo Erectus about 1.5 million years ago, or the Cro-Magnons with 40,000 BC. No one really knows when the Stone Age started , however it was when there were no written records.      Africa is considerded the cradle of the human race.Africa jas the mostexcavated fosills.  It has the oldesthumans skelletons in east Africa in places such as Hadar, Olduvai, and Laetoli.  There awas a new discovery, the founding of lucy in Hadar, Ethiopia.  Lucy was three feet tall and was only near the age of twenty-one when she died.  Lucy has been dated between 3.6 to 3 million years old.  Lucy was one of the first humans other known as the Australopithecus.      The Stone age weapons were sharp stone tools that had the flaked-stone technology.  One of the first human was aphrodites or figurines of fertility.  Another form of artis cave paintings. There were many types of houses; three are Terra Amatta, Poggenswiches, and Magdalenian huts.The last species of the stone age was Homo habilis.

evolution of man

Pre-literate history Recording the past with no evidence Ethiopia Hadar It is divided into 3 stages Stone age weapons Tool making abilities Olduvai Resarch of Charles Darwin Youth of fossils

Quote: "I now realize i have been looking down the wrong? road."                                                                                                               Charles Lyell