history

1. Olduvai Stone Chopping Tool

180,000 BCE

This is among the earliest premised tools designed by humans, dating back to approximately 1.8 million years ago. The tool was discovered in Olduvai Gorge, Tanzania, and was used in chopping wood, bones, and meat by early humans. It shows evidence of the very first toolmaking in human evolution and survival.

2. Olduvai Hand Axe

159,998 BCE

An example of advanced technology in comparison to the chopping tool is the Olduvai Hand Axe from 1.6 million years ago. This symmetrical stone tool is exemplary in representing the fact that early humans were getting better and better at molding tools for improvements in the task of cutting and processing materials.

Jomon Pot

14,000 BCE

The Jomon Pot, from Japan's Jomon period, dates as far back as 14,000 thousand years and is considered one of the first examples in pottery. The complicated design and its use for cooking or storage represent the development of settled societies and advances within craftsmanship. The pottery was a very important device for storing food, which allowed them to attain greater societal stability.

3. Clovis Spear Point

13,500 BCE

The Clovis Spear Point was manufactured by early Native Americans around 13,500 thousand years ago to hunt large game-like mammoths. This object forms a benchmark of a very important instance in human migration and adaptation to new environments, besides specialized hunting techniques which it evolved.

4. Swimming Reindeer

13,000 BCE

The Swimming Reindeer carved in mammoth ivory is a work of early human's dating back 13,000 years. This artistic expression that pays much attention to detail. This object found in France represents the different increasing importance of art and symbolism in human culture within at least the greater part of the Ice Age.

6. Ain Sakhri Lovers Figurine

11,000 BCE

The small stone figurine, discovered in the Ain Sakhri cave near Bethlehem 11,000 years ago, it most likely shows a couple embracing intimately. It is the earliest known depiction anywhere in the world of two human lovers and bears witness to the symbolic and ritual importance of the couple in early human societies.

Bird Shaped Pestle

8000 BCE

This is an 8000-year-old food-grinding stone pestle from Papua New Guinea. The form of a bird suggests that animals had symbolic or ritual significance for early farming people. It is one of many tools that indicate the trend toward settled farming life and how central food processing was to it.

Egyptian Clay Model of Cattle

5000 BCE

This is a model of domesticated cattle in ancient Egyptian civilization. It would have served merely a religious or funerary purpose, which was a representation of wealth and status, apart from the significance of cattle in the Egyptian economy and culture.

Jadeite Axe

4000 BCE

The Jadeite Axe, found in Europe, is a polished ceremonial object made of a jade material that had to be transported over long distances. Its significance consists in the fact that it acted as a prestige object in Early European societies, testifying to the existence of social hierarchies and networks of trade.

King Den's Sandal Label

2985 BCE

King Den's Sandal Label: This is an ivory label from Egypt, King Den in combatant position; attached to the sandals, this visually shows some of that storytelling power and divine authority within ancient Egyptian society.