Choose the correct answer for each blank below.

Name Origins Location Characteristics Tools

3 million years ago southern and eastern Africa walked upright
had small brains
ate plants no evidence of tool-making

2 million years ago Africa walked upright
had larger brains than Australopithecus
ate mainly plants
sometimes ate meat and bone marrow
were gatherers and scavengers stone scrapers
stone choppers
sharp flakes of stone

1.8 million years ago Africa, Asia, Europe walked upright
had larger brains than earlier hominids
hunted and ate meat fire
stone hand axes

230,000 years ago Europe and western Asia walked upright
had larger brains than modern man
hunted and ate meat stone tools

200,000 years ago Africa, Asia, Europe walked upright
had an average size brain
hunted and ate meat
made cave paintings
created burial sites
made bracelets and necklaces parallel-sided blades
spears