The Cradle of Humankind: East Africa and the Great Rift Valley

6.T2.2Massachusetts Social Studies Standards · 5th Grade

Identify sites where archaeologists have found evidence of the origins of modern human beings and explain current theories of how human groups moved from Africa over time into the continents now known as Asia, Europe, the Americas, and Oceania. Give examples of how ongoing archaeological research adds new data that changes interpretations of how migrations and habitation sites are dated.