Pre-Historic Man
(Different than ancient man)
Neanderthal People Cro-Magnon People
When they lived 200,000 B.C.- 30,000 B.C.? (may have been absorbed by Cro-Magnon) 30,000 B.C.- 
10,000 B.C.
Physical characteristics powerfully built heavy jaws, thick eyebrow ridges, large noses looked more like modern people; high foreheads, well defined chins, small eyebrow ridges
Where they lived Europe, the Middle East, Asia, lived in caves southern France and Spain; lived in caves
Tools they used more efficient tools than preceding groups used fire to develop new techniques for fashioning bifacial tools, arrowheads and scrapers, implements that were essential for the survival of his tribe. more advanced tools than Neanderthal greater use of the animals he had hunted. The skins were used to make clothes, antlers to make tool handles, needles and hooks and he gradually began to farm the land and then to breed animals (from 5000 BC).
Important Accomplishments wore clothes; cared for the sick; buried the dead with tools; probably the first to cook food invented the spear; better hunters, 

could draw and paint,
Homo-sapiens-means "wise man"
Homo-habilis- means "handy man" or man with ability 2 million years ago used stone tools
Homo-erectus- means "the man who walks erect"
Current day man is called Homo sapiens sapiens
Australopithecus africanus- (Southern Ape of Africa)
Not a very good name because the skull found in 1924 was not an ape and we now know that the Australopithecus lived in many places besides Africa. Earliest finds were in Ethiopia and Tanzania in Africa all we know is that they walked upright on two legs and used tools. The First real people have been found in Java, Beijing, other parts of Asia, Europe and Africa and probably lived in caves. They used stone tools, hunted animals and learned to work together cooperation key to their success.
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