A six-million-year-old jaw bone in Ethiopia proves to be a piece of the earliest hominid discovered-so far. Big Mama, who used a tree branch to escape from a zoo in Holland, is found sipping chocolate milk at a local restaurant. Nandy, a 50,000-year-old skeleton surrounded by flower pollen in Iraq, casts doubt on the beastly reputation of an early hominid. Found frozen in the Alps, Ötzi reveals what people in Europe ate 5,000 years ago. Ardipithecus ramidus kadabba, a chimpanzee, a Neandertal, and the Iceman are just some of the characters who make up The Early Human World. Peter Robertshaw and Jill Rubalcaba tell the story of early human life using an incredible variety of primary sources: 3.5-million-year-old footprints preserved by a volcano provide evidence of our ancestors' walking on two legs. Stone flakes fashioned 2 million years ago prove early hominids used tools. Bears, lions, and rhinoceroses painted in a cave 30,000 years ago reveal our ancestors' artistic side. An 8,500-year-old dog grave shows the extraordinarily long history of man's best friend. This evidence helps archaeologists decipher not just how we came to be the Homo sapiens we are today, but also what life may have been like for our earliest ancestors. The first Australians encountered freakishly gigantic beasts: kangaroos as big as houses and tortoises the size of cars. The Sahara Desert was once a fertile land, supporting herds of cattle, sheep, and goats. The Early Human World takes readers to sites around the world as archaeologists piece together the clues to our past.

The Early Human World

Children's Books

Rubalcaba, Jill

Robertshaw, Peter

History

Oxford University Press

The Teaching Guide to The Early Human World is a complete, all-in-one resource that provides teachers with the support they need to help their students access the content of the book from the Medieval &amp; Early Modern World series. It contains a collection of important instructional tools for the teacher, and a separate section on reading and literacy with practical strategies for teaching content to students with a wide range of abilities and learning styles. Special multimedia, cross-curricular projects, one for each chapter, designed for mixed-group use gives students of all backgrounds and learning styles a chance to access and interact with the content. Chapter-by-chapter three-page lesson plans that are filled with activities to help teachers get the most out of every chapter in the book, including two chapter activities in blackline master form, graphic organizer reproducibles, project outlines, rubrics and a chapter assessment.

Teaching Guide to The Early Human World (The ^AWorld in Ancient Times)

Reference

Words, Language & Grammar

The Student Study Guides are important and unique components that are available for each of the books in The World in Ancient Times series. Each of the Student Study Guides is designed to be used with the main text at school or sent home for homework assignments. The activities in the Student Study guide will help students get the most out of their history books. Each student study guide includes a chapter-by-chapter two-page lesson that uses a variety of interesting activities to help a student master history and develop important reading and study skills.

Student Study Guide to The Early Human World (The ^AWorld in Ancient Times)

Teen & Young Adult

Education & Reference

Dig in to the oldest record-keeping system on earth: the human body. Jill Rubalcaba and Peter Robertshaw recount the unearthing of four hominins—Turkana Boy, Lapedo Child, Kennewick Man, and Iceman. Each discovery leads not only to deductions that scientists made in laboratories, but also to controversial debates over the reconstruction of these ancient corpses. Experts argue, institutions throw accusations, and reputations fall apart as the brightest minds in the business try to deduce what really happened millions of years ago. Learn how specialized the field of archaeology has become and how new technology can change both scientists' theories and the way we view the past.

Every Bone Tells a Story: Hominin Discoveries, Deductions, and Debates

Charlesbridge

Jill Rubalcaba and Peter Robertshaw recount the unearthing of four hominins--Turkana Boy, Lapedo Child, Kennewick Man, and Iceman. Each discovery leads not only to deductions that scientists made in laboratories, but also to controversial debates over the scientists' differences of opinion over how, or even if, the pieces fit together. Learn how specialized the field of archaeology has become and how new technology can change both scientists' theories and the way we view the past.

Results of archaeological surveys and excavations, and effective interdisciplinary research of the Loita-Mara region of south-western Kenya. The main focus is on Neolithic sites and prehistoric pastoral subsistence and settlement systems. Includes contributions of many authors.

Early Pastoralists of South-western Kenya

Arts & Photography

History & Criticism

British Institute in Eastern Africa

Papers given at a conference at SOAS in 1980 with contributions from C P D Harvey (environmental contexts); C Ehret (linguistics); Nicholas David (interpretation of archaeologival data from the 1979 BIEA expedition); Else Johansen Kleppe (The Debbas on the White Nile); L P Kirwan (Greek and Roman expeditions); R S O'Fahey (Fur and Fartit: history of a frontier); P Robertshaw (Eastern Equatoria in the context of later history); G J Dimmendaal (libguistic contacts between Eastern Nilotic and Surma groups); J Mack (material culture and ethnic identity); S Tornay (archeologie, ethno-histoire et ethnographie); B Mark Lynch (early pastoralist social organization); R Oliver (reflections on the British Institute's expeditions).

Culture History in the Southern Sudan: Archaeology, Linguistics and Ethnohistory

MACK, JOHN

Africa

British Institute in Eastern Af

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The Early Human World

Teaching Guide to The Early Human World (The ^AWorld in Ancient Times)

Student Study Guide to The Early Human World (The ^AWorld in Ancient Times)

Every Bone Tells a Story: Hominin Discoveries, Deductions, and Debates

Every Bone Tells a Story: Hominin Discoveries, Deductions, and Debates

Early Pastoralists of South-western Kenya

Culture History in the Southern Sudan: Archaeology, Linguistics and Ethnohistory