Homo erectus/ergaster, the first Homo species to migrate out of Africa (Homo erectus), lived from ~1.9 million—350,000 years ago in Africa (ergaster) and Asia/Indonesia (erectus). The species innovated stone tool technology (“Acheulean stone tool industry”) and likely lived in hunter gatherer groups and cared for their sick and injured. The artwork paints a portrait of these early humans by displaying scientifically derived knowledge about the era in which they existed, their place in the Homo family tree, their geographical spread and migration patterns, their facial features and physical stature, their skull and brain size, tools and technology, and the key fossils leading to this knowledge.
Homo erectus/ergaster, the first Homo species to migrate out of Africa (Homo erectus), lived from ~1.9 million—350,000 years ago in Africa (ergaster) and Asia/Indonesia (erectus). The species innovated stone tool technology (“Acheulean stone tool industry”) and likely lived in hunter gatherer groups and cared for their sick and injured. The artwork paints a portrait of these early humans by displaying scientifically derived knowledge about the era in which they existed, their place in the Homo family tree, their geographical spread and migration patterns, their facial features and physical stature, their skull and brain size, tools and technology, and the key fossils leading to this knowledge.