Fossil Evidence For Human Evolution Part 2

Question 1

What are homo habilis?

Answer 1

2.5 - 1.5 Million years old

Used stone tools used to break bones and crack bones.

Question 2

What are homo erectus?

Answer 2

Rocks into shapes to make complex tools to hunt, chop and scrape meat

Question 3

What are homo Neanderthalis?

Answer 3

Complex tools that are flint tools with pointed edges to hunt

Question 4

What are Homo sapiens?

Answer 4

Flint was the craze and people used arrowheads fish hooks and sharp edges to do complex tasks

Question 5

How do scientists work out how old a fossil is?

Answer 5

Looking at features of tool and fossiles , simply bad tools were older

Stratigraphy - layers of rock, older rock are found below younger layers. Deeper means older fossils

Carbon dating is used to find date of material