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3000 BCE
Prehistory
3 millions years ago - 5,000 years ago the first stone tools, the invention of writing systems. Devided into a three age system.
Protohistory
Eurocentric - Eurasia and North Africa. -
2000 BCE
Stone Age
3.4 millions year - 8700 to 20000 BCE, first use of stone tools, metalworking, subdivided by the types os stone tools used, contemporaneous with the evolution of the genus Homo. -
200 BCE
Lower Paleolithic
Is the "Late Stone Age" and they learn to control fire acheulean manufacture. -
30 BCE
Middle Paleolitgic
Hunting and gathering, homo erectus coexisted with Neanderthals. -
10 BCE
Upper Paleolithic
Homo sapiens thrived and Neanderthals extinguished, sedentism and end of the final glaciation. -
8 BCE
Mesolithic
Homo and Canis begin to coexist in symbiosis and Humans started to domesticate plants and animals. -
7 BCE
Neolithic
Pottery manufacture, polished stone tools, neolithic revolution / Agricultural Revolution.