AFRICA 👱🏿‍♂️

By Noel Lacayo
  • Period: 100,000 BCE to 40,000 BCE

    Middle Stone Age Evolution of early form of Homo sapiens - modern man. Shaped stone points used for spearheads.

    Middle Stone Age
    Evolution of early form of Homo sapiens - modern man. Shaped stone points used for spearheads.
  • Period: 50,000 BCE to 30,000 BCE

    First hominids walk East and Southern Africa

    First hominids walk East and Southern Africa, known as Australopithecines or "Ape-Men"
  • Period: 40,000 BCE to 10,000 BCE

    Later Stone Age Rise of Homo sapiens. Development of bow and arrow Evidence of rock paintings. Hunter gathering lifestyle.

    Later Stone Age
    Rise of Homo sapiens.
    Development of bow and arrow
    Evidence of rock paintings.
    Hunter gathering lifestyle.
  • Period: 30,000 BCE to 15,000 BCE

    Early Stone

    Early Stone Age
    Emergence of Homo habilis "the toolmaker", using flaked stone scrapers.
  • Period: 9000 BCE to 3000 BCE

    ast major wet period in Africa. The Sahara is habitable with savannah, grassland and rivers. Baked clay pottery found in African stone age communities. Beginnings of agriculture and domestication of animals

    ast major wet period in Africa. The Sahara is habitable with savannah, grassland and rivers.
    Baked clay pottery found in African stone age communities.
    Beginnings of agriculture and domestication of animals
  • Period: 1750 BCE to 10,000 BCE

    Evolution of Homo erectus used of hand axes and shaped stone scrapers

    Evolution of Homo erectus
    used of hand axes and shaped stone scrapers
  • 1591 BCE

    songhai rise

    songhai rise
  • 1500 BCE

    mali empire starts

    mali empire starts
  • 1464 BCE

    songhai shatters

    songhai shatters
  • 1200 BCE

    mali falls

    mali falls
  • 1200 BCE

    ghana rises

    ghana rises
  • 800 BCE

    Islam begins to spread through Africa

    Islam begins to spread through Africa
  • 500 BCE

    Movement of Bantu peoples to east and southern Africa, "The Bantu Migrations."

    Movement of Bantu peoples to east and southern Africa, "The Bantu Migrations."
  • 500 BCE

    iron smelting in Nigeria and central Niger

    iron smelting in Nigeria and central Niger
  • Period: 500 BCE to 500 BCE

    Evidence of iron smelting in Nigeria and central Niger. Spreads to rest of West Africa by 1000 AD

    Evidence of iron smelting in Nigeria and central Niger. Spreads to rest of West Africa by 1000 AD
  • 300 BCE

    ghana falls

    ghana falls
  • 300 BCE

    cross

    cross
    (AD)
  • 200 BCE

    Movement of Bantu peoples to east and southern Africa, "The Bantu Migrations."

    Movement of Bantu peoples to east and southern Africa, "The Bantu Migrations."

  • Discovery of Australopithecus near Taung, South Africa.

    Discovery of Australopithecus near Taung, South Africa.

  • Homo habilis skulls found in Olduvai Gorge, Tanzania and Lake Turkana, Kenya

    Homo habilis skulls found in Olduvai Gorge, Tanzania and Lake Turkana, Kenya

  • FIGURE

    FIGURE
    Figure discovered

  • Semi-complete skeleton of "Lucy" found in Omo Valley, Ethiopia

    Semi-complete skeleton of "Lucy" found in Omo Valley, Ethiopia

  • Semi-complete skeleton of "Lucy" found in Omo Valley, Ethiopia

    Semi-complete skeleton of "Lucy" found in Omo Valley, Ethiopia

  • Australopithecus footprints found in Laetoli, Tanzania.

    Australopithecus footprints found in Laetoli, Tanzania.

  • Discovery of Australopithecus in Sterkfontein, South Africa

    Discovery of Australopithecus in Sterkfontein, South Africa