Human Evolution Timeline

By KaolaniN
  • 200,000 BCE

    Australopithecus

    (4000000 BCE- 1000000 BCE)
    Were the first ancestors of humans to inhabit earth. Believed to be the first people to stand straight. Found in southern and Eastern Asia.
  • Period: 200,000 BCE to 5000 BCE

    Human Migration

  • 199,000 BCE

    Stone Age

    The Stone Age consisted of the Paleolithic Age and the Neolithic Age. The Paleolithic Age lasted from 2.5 million B.C.E. to 8,000 B.C.E. The Neolithic Age lasted from 8,000 B.C.E. to roughly 3,000 B.C.E.
  • 198,000 BCE

    Homo Habilis

    (2500000 BCE- 1500000 BCE)
    Homo habilis remains have been found throughout eastern Africa. They are believed to be our first ancestors to make and use tools of stone.
  • 197,000 BCE

    Fire

    (1600000 BCE)
    Fire was invented by the Homo erectus. Fire was important because it did not just cook food, it created warmth and scared harmful animals away.
  • 196,000 BCE

    Homo Erectus

    (1600000 BCE- 3000 BCE)
    Homo erectus remains have been found throughout the continents of Asia, Africa, and Europe. They were our first ancestors to have a brain size of 1,000 cubic centimeters.
  • 195,000 BCE

    Neanderthal

    (200000 BCE- 30000 BCE)
    Neanderthal remains have been found throughout Southwest Asia and Europe. They were our first ancestors known to have had ritual burials.
  • 194,000 BCE

    Neolithic Reveloution

    (8000 BCE)
    Agriculture reveloution. People settle in one spot planting and growing livestock. Strength support.
  • 193,000 BCE

    Homo Sapiens

    Wise Person (Africa)
    Distinct chin, smaller nose, and jaw; brains not larger but are able to organize and imagine, frontal lobes, taller, no brow ridge, less rugged, develop imagination, mousterian tools, nomadic.