Human Timeline

Homo Habilis

200,000 BCE

Was the first tool making hominid such as stone tools that kill things, process things, or break things. All hand held. Tear drop shaped axe is super common. A long rock that is sharped down to a point was used to skin the animals to use it. First part in the chain that shows they’re learning and creating things and sharing their knowledge.

Australopithecus

200,000 BCE

Lived 4.5 million years ago, lived in central Africa which is now modern day Ethiopia. The first Hominid named Lucy was developed they lived in the trees. No tools, walked on all four legs, no known language.

Homosapien Sapiens

200,000 BCE

We are humans, we eat both plants and meat and we cook our food making our food preparation more advanced. We develop a language to communicate and teach others even more. We run and walk fully on two legs which takes less energy and is more efficient. We grow our food and hunt.

Africa

200,000 BCE

This event was the first major migration among the people. We moved in order to follow our food sources which at the time we were hunting and gathering. People moved away from the large group and began developing independently.

Homo erectus

180,000 BCE

The first 2 legged standing human, this helps us to run longer and easier. This also gives us the freedom to use our hands, with tools and weapons. We also move away from Africa during this time, because of hunting and gathering. We learn fire, and we learn to teach others things.

Tools

150,000 BCE

Tools changed the life style of the humans. It made everyday things easier and more efficient. Things such as spears and knives made killing and harvesting animals easier and faster.

Fishing

100,000 BCE

A Neolithic event that is significant is when we discovered fishing. This is important because there was tons of fish so we wouldn’t run out easily, and we learned to settle around the coasts to be closer to the food source. It gave us more energy than just gathering, and we used the tools previously discovered to harvest and cook the fish.

Hooks

100,000 BCE

Hooks were developed and the people started using them for fishing, this was easier than catching them by hand or using woven baskets.

Following the coasts

100,000 BCE

This is important because as people began moving they became smart and figured out that if they were close to the coast which has water there would be a plentiful food source. Fish became an important role because there was so much and it was easy to gather.

Land Bridge

20,000 BCE

When the countries were still all together there was a bridge that lead over to one land mass to another. When we were migrating and moving around we discovered this and it led us to the new lands. We discovered when we were following food and separating from each other.

Ice age

11,500 BCE

People had to move when the ice age happened because the climate got too cold and many of the gathering and hunting resources either died or moved away so we had to follow them because otherwise we would’ve died.

Farming

10,000 BCE

When we discovered farming we became non nomadic. We didn’t have to follow a food source and we could build a larger community. Once we figured out how to, everyone helped and they all shared the same food source.

Domestication of animals

10,000 BCE

We domesticated animals to use as another good food source so we didn’t have to follow more and we could have them stay put with our farming needs. We could also use them for traveling and work too.

Roles

10,000 BCE

As we got more advanced diffferent genders would do different things, such as the men doing more of the farming and outside work and the women and children would usually do easier things or things inside. The women would teach the children.