Fill in the table “Hominids and their historical age”
May 25, 2020 | Education
| Human ancestors | Historical age | Brain size | Organization complexity features | Data on work and social life |
Australopithecus | 3.5-5 million years | 500-600 cm3 | Height 120-150 cm, hands a gripping organ, teeth similar in shape to human teeth, upright posture | Herd lifestyle, joint hunting, used natural objects as tools for obtaining food and protection, taking care of the members of the herd. |
Pithecanthropus
Synanthropus |
1-1.5 million years | 1100 cm3 | Height 150-170 cm, massive bones, skull low, pronounced superciliary arches, massive jaws, upright posture . | Public lifestyle, maintaining fire, the manufacture of primitive tools. |
Neanderthal | 28-400 thousand years | 1700 cm3 | Height 160 cm, rough structure of the skeleton, massive bones, sloping forehead, large head pulled into the shoulders | They lived in groups, used fire, manufactured various tools, the emergence of religious beliefs, the first burial places, cannibalism |
Cro-Magnon | 50-60 thousand years | 1800cm3 | Height 180 cm, lack of infraorbital platy, dense physique, well-developed muscles. | They lived by the clan community, manufactured complex tools, the emergence of art, the domestication of animals, the emergence of agriculture. |
