World History:Chapter 1
The Rise of the Humans By Sylvia Roque
Early Humans
We are not the first humans an Earth.Lucy was the first hominini to walk and earth because she was bipedal.Her spices was Australopithecus.They still look like apes and had lots of ape like traits like canine teeth and a flatted skull. After that came the Homo Habilis .They were the first humans that made tools still like apes but look more like a human with there hand,feet and teeth.They lived about 2 Million to 1.5 Million years ago.Homo Erectus came after they where fast runners.They were the ones that used fire to cook food.Cooked food help the brain grow with carbohydrate and proteins it helps your brain tissue grow.After that Homo Sapiens came.They are modern humans they built and have high round heads.There brains are bigger.Homo Habilis and other early humans left out of Africa because of an ice age all of the animals left so early humans left to go after them.It soon be came really hot and it became hotter and hotter it became harder and harder to find food and water.Today it is a savanna.
Archaeologist as Detectives
Today we know Archaeologist are scientist that carefully examine artifacts and take care of them so the artifact won't break.It was not always like that in the pass Archaeologist were more like explores.They would only get the stuff that would make the rich or the stuff that are valuable.Most of the artifacts were broken and destroyed.That is why it is good that now archaeologist are scientist because now we know more about the pass and how early humans live. Archaeologist can find amazing discoveries but they are not the only ones that find discoveries because a group of teen that were chancing there dog the found a famous cave painting in Lascaux,France .
Tools of the Craft
Archaeologist always have to find a good place site to dig.For standers archaeologist have find a place where many artifacts are sticking out or a place where a old building once stood because they Know that there use to be a civilization would be there with there cultures.In many dig sites the main problem is the climate. Usually archaeologist have to deal with heat or downpour . Archaeologist use many tools and one of them is called the trowels.It is a small shove that removes small amounts of dirt so that they can find smaller artifacts. Archaeologist also use it so that they don't break the other artifacts with the big shovel.Some of the artifacts are fossils ,tools ,sculptures ,art ,poetry and written records.But the most important is written records because if you find a written record you will know how that person lived and its culture and it would tell you how the pass because in Asia or in the US people might of lived different .The rocks and sticks they used was like there technology.