Hominids and their tools

Question 1

Late Australopithecus afarensis

Answer 1

3.3 mybp, Pre-Oldowan tools

no usable thumbs, instinctual, suited to trees

Question 2

Homo habilis

Answer 2

2.9 mybp, Oldowan tools

usable thumbs, first to make tools

Question 3

Homo erectus

Answer 3

1.76 mybp, Acheulian tools

opposable thumbs, tall, human-like hands

Question 4

Homo neanderthalensis

Answer 4

600 kybp, Mousterian & Aterian tools

opposable thumbs, deliberate thinkers

Question 5

(Later) Homo neanderthalensis

Answer 5

45 kybp, Chattelperronian tools

spear hunting, composite tools, long distance vision

Question 6

Anatomically modern Homo Sapiens (AMHs)

Answer 6

38 kybp, Aurignacian tools

spears, rational thinker, smarter tool use, agility

Question 7

Homo sapiens (1)

Answer 7

22 kybp, Solutrean tools

butchering hides, lost brute strength, calculating vision

Question 8

Homo sapiens (2)

Answer 8

18 kybp, Magdalenian tools

inventive, low stature, throw weapons with accuracy

Question 9

Homo sapiens (3)

Answer 9

10 kybp, End of Upper Neolithic tools

pottery, mud houses, beginning of farming

Question 10

Homo sapiens (4)

Answer 10

3.3 kybp, Bronze age tools

tin/bronze tech requiring production techniques

Question 11

Homo sapiens (5)

Answer 11

3.2 kybp, Iron age tools

smelting, welding tools, inventive

Question 12

Homo sapiens sapiens

Answer 12

1.2 kybp, Present (Industrial/Age of info,)

precise hand movement, rational/invnentive/deliberate thinkers, depth perception + peripheral vision

Question 13

Homo sapiens (Paleoindians)

Answer 13

1.2 kybp, Clovis culture

stone technology, mobile hunters, use blades and projectiles