Category Archives: Anthropology

Homo ergaster, which lived from 1.9 – 1.8 million years ago, was the first hominid species to walk away from Africa and into Europe and Asia. Homo ergaster could talk to each other in their own language (which was made of a few sounds). Homo ergaster means “Working Man”. Homo ergaster had new techniques: handContinue reading “Homo ergaster”

Lucy is a young female fossil of Australopithecus afarensis that lived around 3.2 million years ago. On the Afar desert in Ethiopia, anthropologist Donald Johanson and his student Thomas Gray were taking a walk when they saw bits and pieces of fossil bone. They tried to put it together and it joined perfectly! They namedContinue reading “Lucy – the famous Australopithecus afarensis fossil”

Homo heidelbergensis was an early human. It was almost human, but lacked one thing – imagination. They couldn’t think  “what if?”. Homo heidelbergensis means “man from Heidelberg”. Heidelberg is a town in Germany. They lived during the Anglian ice age around 380,000 years ago. Homo heidelbergensis had a very wide nose that it stretched almostContinue reading “Homo heidelbergensis”