Becoming Human
A series of documentary movies about those who study human origins
and what they have found.
The
Cave of Lascaux
This site is designed just like the cave these ancient drawings
are in. Have fun wandering down the dark passages.
Cooking
Clan of the Cave Bear Style!
Boiling water in a skin pot over a fire (or not...)
Early
Humanoids
Site follows the latest discoveries and the debates about the
finds in links to science journals. Illustrated.
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.
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.
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.
The
Iceman's Last Meal
Find out what the Iceman ate eight hours before he died, some
5,000 years ago.
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!
Long
Foreground - Overview of Human Evolution
A student module for the study of evolution, Darwin's theory,
and lots of photos of skulls.
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.
Ötzi,
the glacier man
Information about the mumified prehistoric glacier man from the
Alps, a.k.a. "Ötzi". Pictures from his reconstructed
gear, and the latest discoveries about this unique finding.
Prehistoric
fiction
A literary genre. A novel set in prehistoric times, or in which
the principal characters are members of a prehistoric society.
Bibliography
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.
Walking With Cavemen
Professor Robert Winston meets Lucy, the first upright ape, and follows her ancestors on the three-million-year journey to civilisation.
Who's Who of Early Man
Mr. Donn summarizes Early Humans - Lucy, Neanderthals, Cro-Magnon and more!
