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- page 6 – Span of Human History The Three Stages of Human Culture Human Culture is the way people lived, including their arts, beliefs, inventions, traditions, language, government, and homes. First Stage: our ancestors lived in the open. Second Stage: humans learned to use fire, which provided warmth and light needed for living in rock shelters Third Stage: Humans learned to farm and lived in communities. - pg. 4 read introduction - Draw the Human Family Tree from your text on white paper (page 16. You will add the following notes to your diagram. The Emergence of Humans Hominids – (human like creatures) began to appear 4 million years ago where it diverged from apes. They could walk on two feet (bipedalism) and had larger brains. - Ardipithecus Ramidus – fossils recently found and position still uncertain. It was believed to have chimplike and human features. - The Australopithecines A. anamensis – located in Kenya. It had pronounced ape-like teeth. A.afarensis – located in Ethopia. “Lucy”, a female hominid found (3.18 millions years old). Species unchanged for 900 000 years. - Travelled in groups, bipedal, males larger, likely preyed on lacking stone tools and weapons. A.africanus – separated into lines The Stone Age – artifacts made from stone found. - Homo habilis Handy Man Africa 2.5 million years ago First to use and develop stone tools - Homo Erectus Appeared 2 million years ago Walked completely upright First to use fire Migrated to Europe and Asia from Africa - Homo sapiens “man who thinks” Two types: Homo sapiens Neanderthals and Homo sapiens sapiens (Cro-magnons)