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← 2.1 Human Developments in Africa

Africa, the cradle of humankind

History and Citizenship · Grade 10 · about 40 minutes

Why the earliest humans and their tools are found in Africa, and how the East African Rift preserved the evidence.

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Other lessons in this sub-strand

  1. From a migratory to a settled life
  2. The Neolithic revolution and what we owe it
  3. Pastoralism in Africa
  4. Africa, the cradle of humankind
  5. Stages of human evolution
  6. The Early Stone Age in East Africa
  7. The Middle and Late Stone Age
  8. Prehistoric sites in Kenya
  9. Work and culture in the Stone Age
  10. From stone to iron in East Africa