The First Industrial Complex
(Circa 2,500,000 BCE –
500,000 BCE)
2,500,000 BCE to 8,000 BCE Timeline Outline
A New Hominid Species is Discovered with the Help of Satellite Imagery
(Circa 1,950,000 BCE –
1,780,000 BCE)
Acheulean or Mode 2 Industries
(Circa 1,650,000 BCE –
100,000 BCE)
The Earliest Preserved Footprints of Our Ancestors
(Circa 1,530,000 BCE –
1,510,000 BCE)
Early Humans Make Bone Tools
(Circa 1,500,000 BCE)
The Earliest Hearths
(Circa 1,500,000 BCE –
790,000 BCE)
Humans May Have Lived in Britain as Early as 950,000 Years Ago
(Circa 950,000 BCE –
780,000 BCE)
Hunting Large Animals With Spears
(Circa 500,000 BCE)
Man Began Hunting with Stone-Tipped Spears 500,000 Years Ago
(Circa 500,000 BCE)
The Earliest Use of Pigments
(Circa 400,000 BCE –
350,000 BCE)
The Oldest Wooden Spears
(Circa 400,000 BCE)
Early Humans Use Heat-Treated Stone for Tools
(Circa 164,000 BCE –
70,000 BCE)
Evidence for the Origin of Language in Southwestern Africa
(Circa 150,000 BCE –
50,000 BCE)
The Earliest Known Forms of Human Adornment
(Circa 132,000 BCE –
98,000 BCE)
The Earliest Evidence of Sea Voyages
(Circa 130,000 BCE)
Tools for Capturing Fast or Dangerous Prey
(Circa 104,000 BCE)
The Oldest Intentional Burial
(Circa 100,000 BCE)
The Earliest Paint Workshop
(Circa 100,000 BCE)
Katanda Bone Harpoon Point
(88,000 BCE –
78,000 BCE)
Evidence of Early Trade Routes?
(Circa 80,000 BCE)
Early Attempt to Record Information or Early Art?
(Circa 75,000 BCE –
73,000 BCE)
Tool Making by Pressure Flaking Discovered in Africa
(Circa 75,000 BCE)
At Sibudu Cave, the Oldest Known Early Bedding and Use of Medicinal Plants
(Circa 75,000 BCE)
From Sibudu Cave: the Earliest Known Creation and Use of Compound Adhesives, Suggesting Complex Cognition
(Circa 68,000 BCE)
The Earliest Known Examples of Figurative Art
(Circa 38,000 BCE –
33,000 BCE)
The First Sturdy Shoes are Invented
(38,000 BCE)
The Oldest Cave Painting
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(Circa 37,000 BCE)
The Oldest Known Mathematical Artifact
(35,000 BCE)
The Earliest Musical Instruments
(Circa 33,000 BCE)
The Earliest Known Carving of a Mammoth
(Circa 33,000 BCE)
Probably the Earliest Extensive Collection of Paintings
(Circa 32,000 BCE –
30,000 BCE)
Making Materials from Flax Fibers
(Circa 32,000 BCE –
28,000 BCE)
The Earliest Zoomorphic / Anthropomorphic Sculpture
(Circa 30,000 BCE)
The Advantages of Orally Transmitted Traditions
(Circa 30,000 BCE)
The Earliest Sculpture of a Horse
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(Circa 30,000 BCE –
29,000 BCE)
The Oldest Known Ceramic Figurine
(29,000 BCE –
25,000 BCE)
Some of the Earliest Tools for Sewing Garments
(Circa 28,000 BCE –
21,000 BCE)
The Ishango Bone, Possibly One of the Oldest Calendars
(25,000 BCE –
20,000 BCE)
The Earliest Representation of Spun Thread
(25,000 BCE)
The Venus of Willendorf
(Circa 24,000 BCE –
22,000 BCE)
One of the Earliest Known Realistic Representations of a Human Face
(Circa 23,000 BCE)
Perhaps the Oldest Surviving Architecture
(Circa 23,000 BCE –
12,000 BCE)
The Oldest Fish Hooks and Evidence of Paleolithic Offshore Fishing
(Circa 21,000 BCE –
16,000 BCE)
Cylcons
(Circa 18,000 BCE)
The Oldest Known Pottery
(Circa 18,000 BCE)
The Earliest Surviving Pottery From Japan
(Circa 16,000 BCE)
"The Sorcerer"
(Circa 12,000 BCE)
Pre-Historic Art Created by Children at the Cave of a Hundred Mammoths, Rouffignac
(Circa 11,000 BCE)
The Swimming Reindeer
(Circa 11,000 BCE)
The Mammoth Spear Thrower
(Circa 10,500 BCE)
Perhaps the Oldest Map in the World
(10,000 BCE)
The Holocene Interglacial Period Begins
(Circa 10,000 BCE)
The Eight Founding Crops of Domesticated Agriculture
(Circa 9,500 BCE)
The Earliest Surviving Human-Made Place of Worship
(Circa 9,500 BCE)
