early humans
Our primitive forebears
Early humans refers to ancestral species and populations in the human evolutionary lineage, particularly those preceding modern Homo sapiens.
The term typically encompasses hominins like Homo erectus, Neanderthals, and early Homo sapiens from roughly 2 million to 50,000 years ago: Early humans used stone tools and controlled fire.
In casual usage, it may refer more loosely to prehistoric people generally.
- paleoanthropologyScience of ancestral human remains
- fire-makingStarting a controlled blaze
- stone toolsShaped rocks for tasks
- hand axePrimitive stone cutting tool
- Homo erectusExtinct bipedal human ancestor
burial practices · cave art · fossil excavation · cave dweller · Denisovans · Neanderthal · carbon dating · hominin · bipedalism · paleolithic · missing link · Homo heidelbergensis · woolly mammoth · archaeological digs · genetic analysis · migration patterns · glacial periods · cavemen
- humanityhuman, human being, people, mankind, person
- originsbeginning, birth, creation, source, roots
- Prehistoriccave dwellers, Flintstones, Ice Age, cave paintings, Cro-Magnon
- prehistoric humanscaveman, cave dwellers, cave dweller, Neanderthal, Neanderthals
- Prehistoric Timesprehistory, ancient times, Stone Age, Bronze Age, Iron Age
- Stone Agecave painting, paleolithic, hand ax, handaxes, hand axe
early humansindustrial society
Civilization centered on manufacturing