Old stone

Australopicus

200,000 BCE

Lived 4.5 million years ago in central Africa and modern day Ethiopia. Was the first hominid. Lived in the forest mainly in the trees. It is the start of our evolutionary chain.

Homo habilis

199,990 BCE

Lived 2.5 million years ago, is the first part of the evolutionary change. They were the first that learned and created tools. They were also the first to pass things down to next generations like information and tools.

Last Ice Age

199,800 BCE

The last ice age was 2.58 million years ago to 11,700. Nearly 3/4 of all the animals at the time dies off. It is because of climate change and overhunting. Many animals that we know today emerged and were more common than in the past. People had to change the way they dressed and the way they hunted and moved.

Leaving Africa

199,000 BCE

About 2 million years ago homo erect is people began there movement out of Africa. We moved into Europe and eventually spread out throughout the entire world. People were in small groups of about 20-30 people and they all gathered and moved with animals they were hunting.

Fire

198,990 BCE

Humans first began to use fire about 1 million years ago. We could use fire to provided a source of warmth, protection, improvement on hunting and a way for cooking food. We could make caves homes with fire. We could fend of predators with it and cook meat with it. We could also burn the end of spears to make them less prone to breaking. Fire helped our brains grow because we could digest food easier. Since we could do this we could create better tools and weapons.

Spears

198,900 BCE

Spears were first being used about 300,000 years ago and by 200,000 they had learned how to sharpen and attach a stone to the end of the Spears. They would throw the spear at an animal so they didn’t have to get as close. Spears helped them hunt and kill animals.

Homo sapienes sapienes

198,000 BCE

They appear about 200,000 years ago in Africa. They slowly moved out of Africa and ended up all around the world. They were the first modern humans. They quickly learned how to hunt and create tools that help them hunt and clean animals better. They could think and problem solve to help themselves in there tough environment.

Neanderthals

130,000 BCE

Lived 130,000 to 30,000 years ago. They originated in Africa but moved out into Europe. They created very helpful tools like spears and passed this information on how to live onto the next generations. They helped other humans survive in Europe and eventually cross bred with them.

Toba Eruption

75,000 BCE

Mount Toba is in Indonesia. It was 75,000 years ago. It was the largest eruption in the last 2 million years. The volcanic winter lasted 6 to 10 years and a 1,000 year cooling period. People had to adapt to this and had to create clothing to cope with this cold harsh climate.

Needles

60,000 BCE

We first created needles about 60,000 years ago. With the new needles we could create clothes and have another layer of protection from the elements. With the new clothes they could go out longer and go further than before because there body wouldn’t get as cold or get injured as quickly.

Land bridge between Asia and Americas

20,000 BCE

The land bridge open up about 20,000 years ago. People crossed it following large animals that are now extinct. The bridge disappeared because of climate change and the glaciers melting that covered it up.

Herding

11,000 BCE

Sheep’s and goats were the first animals to be domesticated. These were not the first domesticated since dogs were at about 30,000 bce. Shortly after sheep’s and goats were cattle, pigs, and cats. they could use these things for meet. Cats helped with the mice problem because since people started storing grain mice came and the cats would help with this problem. Later hauling animals hike camels and ox became popular.

Founding of Jericho

9000 BCE

The city of Jericho was founded 9,000 years ago. It has many natural rivers surrounding it. The built a big wall around the entire city and had everyone live inside it. The farmed and had animals on the outside. There was about 1,000 people in the city. It was one of the first major cities.

Farming Hoe

8000 BCE

When they started to farm they needed tools to help them with it, so they created the hoe. The hoe can help to weed fields. Dig holes for seeds, and could dig trenches for irrigation. In West Asia, Africa and Europe, people planted figs first, and then grains. Wheat, barley, millet, sorghum, oats and rye, and legumes like peas, lentils, and chickpeas. In South America, it was potatoes, corn, squash, sweet potatoes, beans, yuca root and peanuts.