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1856
In Germany limestone workers found fossilized bone fragments (Neandrathals) -
Period: to
* Paleolithic Age
Lasted from about 2.5 million - 8000 B.C < (THE OLDEST STONE AGE) -
1922-34
Leonard wooley discovered a long lost civilization of Ur. -
1950
Robert Braidwood concluded at a dig site called Jarmo that an agricultural settlement was built there 9000 yrs ago. -
1958
Archeologists discovered an agricultural village known as Catal Hyuk -
1960
Mary & Louis Leaky discovererd a hominid fossil named Olduvai -
1974
Donald Johansan discovered a unusually complete skeleton of an adult female hominid, who she gave the nickname "Lucy" , she was dated to have lived about 3.5 million yrs ago, she was the oldest hominid found at that point. -
1978
Mary Leaky and her expedition team found prehistoric footprints that resembled those of modern humans (a.k.a australopithecines or hominids) -
1991
Iceman and man-made tools discovered, estimated to be 5000 yrs. old -
Australopithecines
exsisted from 4 million- 1 million B.C -
Homo Habilis
Lived from 2.5 million - 1.5 million B.C -
Homo erectus
lived from 1.6 million - 30000 B.C -
Neandrathal
Lived from 200000- 30000B.C -
Cro-Magnum
lived from 40000- 8000 B.C -
Period: to
*Neolithic Age
Began about 8000 B.C and ended as early as 3000 B.C/ people who lived during the second phase of the stone age learned to polish stone tools, make pottery, grow crops, raise animals.