MAN, THE HUNTER
| About 2 mya, much taller hominid called |
| Homo ergater appeared. Ergaster were the |
| first creatures to have bodies much like |
| ours, with long legs and straight backs. |
| Adult ergasters were 1.6 meter tall, weighed |
| 65kg and had brains of 850 cc, well over |
| half as big as ours. |
| Egasters did not just scavenge for meat like |
| Homo hibilis. They went hunting for |
| large animals. |
| For hunting effectively, ergaster had to |
| work together, so co-operation was the key |
| to their success - and may have quickly led |
| to the development of speech. |
| Ergaster may have painted their bodies with |
| red ochre (a mineral found in the ground). |
| Shortly after Homo ergaster came Homo |
| erectus ('Upright Man'). |
| Remains of Homo erectus are found as far |
| from Africa as Java. Stone tools 700,000 |
| years old were found on the Indonesian |
| island of Flores and suggest they may have |
| traveled by boat. |
| Homo erectus learned to light fires, so they |
| could live in colder places, and make a |
| wider range of food, edible by cooking. |
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