About This Lesson
Bones from ancient sites show that our ancestors were butchering animals long ago: bones with cut marks made before they were fossilised date back 3.5 million years. In this short article we look at what we know about our ancestors' eating habits. Includes lesson ideas: Did eating fish help our brains grow? Is it learning to cook that made us human? From the Wellcome Trust's Big Picture: Food and Diet (www.wellcome.ac.uk/bigpicture/food).
I like this article to start discussion in my class. I would like to incorporate the 2 other links on the article and have my students use textual evidence to compare/contrast themes and ideas from all 3 articles.