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1479
Prehistory
3 millions years ago - 5,000 years ago the first stone tools, the invention of writing systems. Devided into a three age system.
Protohistory
Eurocentric - Eurasia and North Africa. -
1485
Stone Age
3.4 millions year - 8700 to 20000 BCE, first use of stone tools, metalworking, subdivided by the types os stone tools used, contemporaneous with the evolution of the genus Homo. -
1490
Lower Paleolithic
Greek palaiós "antiguo" and lithos "stone"
Homo habilis crafted tools for scavenging,strating meat consumption
Acheulean manufcature -
1497
Middel Paleolithic
Anatomically moder humans began migrating out of Africa
Homo erectus coexisted with Neanderthals
Hunting and gathering
Culture and commerce began -
1500
Upper Paleolithic
Holocene epoch
Expansion of modern humans throughout Eurasia and the world
Homo sapiens thrived an Neanderthals exthinguished
Sedentism -
1520
Meseolithic
Transitional between hunter -gatherer and agricultural practices
Homo a Canis beging