Who's Who Among the Early Hominins?

Our first early hominid, is Homo Habilis. He is also known as handy man. Homo Habilis made tools, but they were not that good. Archaeologists don' know weather Homo Habilis hunted, or collected food that they could find and ate animals that were killed by other animals. They disappeared 1.5 million years ago. In their last 300,000 years, they were not the only ones on the planet. There was Homo Erectus with them. Homo Erectus lived from 1.8 million years ago to 100,000 years ago. He is one of the advanced hominids. He was to be found in Africa, Europe and Asia. He was taller and heavier than other early hominids. Homo Erectus also has vary much more advanced tools they used. Also, what was very important, Homo Erectus was the first to learn how to control fire! One of Homo Erectuses relatives, is Homo Flourensis. But thn, 150,000 years before the extincion of Homo Erectus, came the Neanderthals. They lived from 250,000 years ago to 30,000 years ago. They had very sophisticated stone tools, and culture. The Neanderthals settled in Europe 100,000 years ago, just when Homo Erectus got extinct. Homo Heidelburgensis evolved into the Neanderthals, but also into us, Homo Sapiens. During the Ice Age, it was only us and the Neanderthals. But when the Ice Age ended, the Neanderthals disappeared, and Homo Sapiens where the last ones standing.

Susman, Randall. "Whos Who Among the Early Hominids?" Odyssey Oct. 2009: 22-25. Print.