Moving Day

A: Foraging, Migration, and Beyond

Evolution fuels migration

Through the changes in humans and their abilities over time, humans altered their environments through their actions.

Here, hunting and gathering/foraging was the primary means to obtaining food.

CC: Hunting and Gathering

Hunting & Gathering

B: Why did humans migrate?

Migrations and Technological Creativity

Humans had to use collective learning to come up with new adaptive strategies as they migrated in search of food, moving into environments they had never experienced before. They also altered landscapes and hunted many species to extinction.

C: Leaving so soon?

History of Human Migration

Earth viewed from the Prime Meridian

(This is the typical map view that we are used to seeing.)

Earth viewed from the International Date Line

(This view may help you on the Quest!)

Over Time, Humans Have Moved...

Follow the migration of humans across the planet and throughout history!

D: Time is ticking away...

B.C./A.D. vs. B.C.E./C.E.

Though we may have changed how we name time, the distance from us remains unchanged...

except for each passing year making history farther and farther away.

E: QUEST - Human Migration Timeline and Map Skills

Demonstrate your timeline and map skills with this quest.

F: Agriculture is the answer???

Humans are taking over!

Through the process of migration, humanity conquered the Earth! Or, at least moved from Africa into the rest of the Earth.

As human beings spread out across the world and populations grew, humanity reached a critical mass of innovators, and collective learning took off! All these innovations were great for lots of human endeavors, but none was quite as grand as agriculture.