Homo Habilis

How do we describe early human behaviour? Certainly this is a debate that has been argued more than once. It seems that there has been some kind of a consensus between archaeologists and anthropologists that the earliest form of human behaviour was the making of tools. It is generally recognised that early Australopiths may have used rudimentary tools in much the way modern chimps do to coax termites from there nests, but these where simply …

…The Laetoli site in Northern Tanzania, where fossilized foot steps have been found, suggest either a paternal or family subsistence on the part of Homo habilis. These footsteps are of an adult and a child and possibly another. (Feder, 1996) Homo habilis’ adaptation to life in prehistoric Africa enabled it to survive as a species for half a million years or more, and at least one group evolved to a taller, stronger, smarter species of human.