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200,000 BCE
Australopithecus
1st Hominid- Australopithecus is a 'genus' of hominins. From paleontological and archaeological evidence, the genus Australopithecus apparently evolved in eastern Africa around 4 million years ago before spreading throughout the continent and eventually becoming extinct two million years ago. -
200,000 BCE
Homo Habilis
Tool making hominid, larger brain. A proposed archaic species of Homo, which lived between roughly 2.1 and 1.5 million years ago, during the Gelasian and early Calabrian stages of the Pleistocene geological epoch. -
200,000 BCE
Fire
Fire was first controlled by humans anywhere from about 230,000 years ago to 1.4 or 1.5 million years ago, The control of fire by early humans was a turning point in the cultural aspect of human evolution. Fire provided a source of warmth, protection, improvement on hunting and a method for cooking food. These cultural advancements allowed for human geographic dispersal, cultural innovations, and changes to diet and behavior. -
200,000 BCE
Out of Africa
In paleoanthropology, the recent African origin of modern humans, also called the "Out of Africa" theory, recent single-origin hypothesis, replacement hypothesis, or recent African origin model, is the dominant model of the geographic origin and early migration of anatomically modern humans -
200,000 BCE
Spear
Archaeological evidence found in present-day Germany documents that wooden spears have been used for hunting since at least 400,000 years ago. A spear is a pole weapon consisting of a shaft, usually of wood, with a pointed head. The head may be simply the sharpened end of the shaft itself, as is the case with fire hardened spears, or it may be made of a more durable material fastened to the shaft, such as flint, obsidian, iron, steel or bronze. -
200,000 BCE
Göbekli Tepe
First civilization/city where nomads came together and created a community and city n early civilizations. Billed as the oldest stone temple in the world, it is composed of a series of megalithic structures containing rings. Agriculture and animal husbandry were barely known when Göbekli Tepe was built, and roaming the fertile landscape of southwest Asia were, we are told, primitive hunter-gatherers, whose sole existence revolved around survival on a day-to-day basis. -
200,000 BCE
Homo Sapiens
Displace all other forms of “human like” organisms. are the only extant members of the subtribe Hominina. They are part of the family Hominidae. A terrestrial animal, humans are characterized by their erect posture and bipedal locomotion compared to other animals; open-ended and complex language use compared to other animal communications; larger, more complex brains than other animals; and highly advanced and organized societies. Used tool making, collective learning, and language to survive -
120,000 BCE
Neanderthals
an extinct species of human that was widely distributed in ice-age Europe between c. 120,000–35,000 years ago, with a receding forehead and prominent brow ridges. The Neanderthals were associated with the Mousterian flint industry of the Middle Paleolithic. -
73,000 BCE
Mount Toba Catastrophe Theory
The Toba supereruption was a supervolcanic eruption that occurred about 75,000 years ago at the site of present-day Lake Toba in Sumatra, Indonesia. It is one of the Earth's largest known eruptions. The Toba catastrophe theory holds that this event caused a global volcanic winter of six to ten years and possibly a 1,000-year-long cooling episode. This greatly declined the human population and caused humans to migrate to different areas because of the conditions it caused. -
48,000 BCE
Move to Australia
About 50,000 years ago, a small band of humans landed in northern Australia, arriving on a primitive boat or raft. It is likely that the journey was planned because enough men and women arrived to found a new population there. Perhaps guided by rivers, the group ventured deeper inland, where they found giant mammals, birds, and reptiles ripe for hunting, and no other humans to challenge them. This intrepid group had stumbled upon a new continent, and they had it all to themselves. -
18,000 BCE
Bering Land Bridge
The Bering land bridge is a postulated route of human migration to the Americas from Asia about 20,000 years ago.An open corridor through the ice-covered North American Arctic was too barren to support human migrations before around 12,600 BP. Humans had migrated from to Asia to the U.S. over the land bridge for new and more resources for themselves. These populations expanded south of the Laurentide Ice Sheet and rapidly throughout both North and South America. -
10,000 BCE
The Invention of Agriculture
The Neolithic Revolution or the Agricultural Revolution, marked the transition in human history from small nomadic bands of hunter-gatherers to larger, agricultural settlements and early civilization. The Earth entered a warming trend around 14,000 years ago at the end of the last Ice Age. Some scientists theorize that climate changes drove the Agricultural Revolution. People began altering communities for their own benefit through means such as fire-stick farming and forest gardening very early -
8000 BCE
The Sedentary Life
Approximately 12,000 years ago, a transition known occurred. People settle in one spot: Sedentary through domestication of plants and animals. Development of specialized functions; plant and harvest, trade, govern, explain the universe, and making tools, domestication of animals formerly hunted. Population increases dramatically, agriculture more people than hunting and gathering. Several aspects of this sedentary lifestyle improved biological defenses in humans against infectious microbes. -
6200 BCE
Canoe
Constructed between 8200 and 7600 BC, and found in the Netherlands. A canoe is a lightweight narrow vessel, typically pointed at both ends and open on top, propelled by one or more seated paddlers facing the direction of travel using a single-bladed paddle. The Pesse canoe may be the oldest known canoe. Homo Erectus built seaworthy craft 600,000 years before the first Homo Sapiens appeared on earth. Early humans reached Bali on the island of Flores, showing exploration among the early humans. -
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