Prehistoric
Man Links
1.)
Becoming Human
A
series of documentary movies about those who study human origins and
what they
have found.
2.) The
Cave of Lascaux
This
site is designed just like the cave these ancient drawings are in. Have
fun
wandering down the dark passages.
3.)
Cooking Clan of the Cave Bear Style!
Boiling
water in a skin pot over a fire (or not...)
4.) Early
Humanoids
Site
follows the latest discoveries and the debates about the finds in links
to
science journals. Illustrated.
5.) Flints
and Stones: Real Life in Prehistory
Welcome
to the world of the late stone age hunter gatherers. This exhibition
takes you
into the lives of the inhabitants of Britain and north west Europe from
the
time when ice sheets still covered land and sea, until the time when
settled
farming peoples were cultivating the land.
6.) Guided
Tour - Hominid Evolution
A
slide show, mostly of skulls and tools of early mankind. If you scroll
down,
you'll be able to read a brief description of each slide.
7.) Human
Evolution
A
Shockwave game. This activity shows the major hominid (human or
human-like)
species discovered to date, when they lived, and how they might be
related to
each other.
8.) The
Iceman's Last Meal
Find
out what the Iceman ate eight hours before he died, some 5,000 years
ago.
9.) The Life & Times
of Early Man
Why
did Cro-Magnon man crawl on his belly through dangerous mazes in deep
dark
caves? How did the "Upright Man" travel from Africa to America
without a boat? Who were the Neandertals? Did man live at the same time
as
dinosaurs? Find out here!
10.) Long Foreground -
Overview of
Human Evolution
A
student module for the study of evolution, Darwin's theory, and lots of
photos
of skulls.
11.)
Neanderthal - Channel 4
Television
Neanderthal
was the story of the rise and fall of one of the most successful human
species
that ever lived. A species that survived for over a quarter of a
million years,
living through and adapting to the most violent extremes of climate. A
species
that thrived - until modern man came along.
12.) Otzi,
the glacier man
Information
about the mumified prehistoric glacier man from the Alps, a.k.a.
"…tzi". Pictures from his reconstructed gear, and the latest
discoveries about this unique finding.
13.)
Return to the Ice Age - The La Brea Exploration Guide
Get
ready to explore the world of Rancho La Brea--one of the world's most
famous
fossil sites. Located in the heart of Los Angeles, the La Brea Tar Pits
is home
to over three million fossils from the last Ice Age. It was here that
huge
mammoths, fierce sabertoothed cats, and giant ground sloths became
trapped and
entombed in the asphalt that has been seeping out of the ground for the
past
40,000 years.
14.) Who's
Who of Early Man
Mr.
Donn summarizes Early Humans - Lucy, Neanderthals, Cro-Magnon and more!
