Evolution Timeline

Mount Toba

75,000 BCE

Within the last three to five million years, after human and other ape lineages diverged from the hominid stem-line, the human line produced a variety of human species.According to the Toba catastrophe theory, a massive volcanic eruption changed the course of human history by severely minimizing under 70–75,000 years ago the Toba caldera in Indonesia underwent a category 8 eruption on the Volcano.

Moving Out Of Africa

60,000 BCE

Early humans migrated out of Africa much earlier than we thought. The traditional human origin story maintains that modern humans, or homo sapiens, evolved in Africa and then migrated in a single wave to the Asian continent about 60,000 years ago. It's better known as the “Out of Africa”.

The First Spear

46,000 BCE

In South Africa shows that people were probably hunting with stone-tipped spears by about 460,000 years ago, roughly 200,000 years earlier than what was believed.

The First Fish Hook

42,000 BCE

Researchers in East Timor, a country in Southeast Asia, have discovered the remains of large fish and fishing gear in a shelter that was used by early humans long ago. The remains include some fish hooks made out of bone and they appear to be 42,000 years old, which suggests that early humans were fishing in the open ocean much earlier than researchers had thought.

The First Basket

27,000 BCE

The first Basket has been around a long time, as four small pieces of clay described by Adovasio this past year make clear. Found at a site called Pavlov in the Czech Republic, they are 27,000 years old, the first basket was made out of woven fibers.

Beringa Route (The Land Bridge)

15,000 BCE

How and when humans first came to the Americas has long been a topic of intense debate. The last great habitable landmass to be occupied by humans, focus on the Bering land bridge, or Beringia, which emerged between Siberia and Alaska during the last ice age

Migration To America

15,000 BCE

The first arrivals keep getting older and older because we’re finding more evidence as time goes on. Right now the latest evidence says that the early humans were already "well in place" by then they were already in America 15,000 years ago.But there is also enough evidence to suggest humans were widespread 20,000 years ago. There’s some evidence of people as far back as 30,000 to 40,000 years ago, but the evidence gets thinner and thinner the further back you go.

Homo sapiens

14,000 BCE

For millions of years all humans, early and modern alike, had to find their own food. They spent a large part of each day gathering plants and hunting or scavenging animals.Then, within just the past 12,000 years, our species, Homo sapiens, made the transition to producing food and changing our surroundings. Humans found they could control the growth and breeding of certain plants and animals.

Farmed animals

13,000 BCE

Genetic studies show that goats and other livestock accompanied the westward spread of agriculture into Europe, helping to revolutionize Stone Age society. The dates for the domestication of these animals range from between 13,000 to 10,000 years ago.

Homo Erectus

12,000 BCE

Homo Erectus are the oldest known early humans to have possessed modern human-like body proportions with relatively elongated legs and shorter arms compared to the size of the torso

the Development Of Agriculture

12,000 BCE

Taking root around 12,000 years ago, agriculture triggered such a change in society and the way in which people lived that its development as the “Neolithic Revolution.” followed by humans since their evolution, were swept aside in favor of permanent settlements and a reliable food supply.

Plant Domestication

9000 BCE

The wild progenitors of crops including wheat, barley, and peas are traced to the Near East region. Cereals were grown in Syria as long as 9,000 years ago.In Mexico, squash cultivation began around 10,000 years ago, but corn maize had to wait for natural genetic mutations to be selected for in its wild ancestor, teosinte.

Homo Habilis

500 BCE

known as the "handy man" is a species of the genus homo which lived from approximately 2.33 to 1.4 million years ago, during the Gelasian Pleistocene period. Mary and Louis Leakey discovered the fossils in Tanzania between 1962 and 1964. The fossil remains demonstrate an australopithecine like body with a more human like face and smaller teeth. Homo Habilis, although a scavenger rather than a master hunter.

Australopithecus

400 BCE

they we're discovered in 1974, members of this species had ape-like face proportions, the males average 4ft 11in. the females average in 3ft 5in. The Australopithecus was a major phase in human evolution. there all still all living in trees the first "human" was named Lucy.