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Stone Age
Lower Home habilis Lomekwian 3.3mya Fire?
Paleolithic Oldowan (2.6-1.7mya) – Simple stone
(3.5mya- simple flake tools and leaf huts
300k) Simple bands
Home erectus Acheulean (1.7-300k) – First burials? (kin-based)
Neanderthals cores used to flake tools; Language? Art?
symmetrical axes; cleavers Clans
Middle Neanderthals Pointed spearheads; knives Fire; burials; Cognitive and
Paleolithic language; art; linguistic
(300k-50k) Homo sapiens jewelry; make- revolution
(exit Africa up; religion; Bands and
125k?) cannibal? tribes; short
Clans; dog range
connections
Upper Homo sapiens Blades; bow and arrow Behavioral
paleolithic Denisovans modernity;
(50-12k) Neanderthals more complex
extinct are
Mesolithic
(12-10k)
Neolithic
(10-3.5k)
Upper Paleolithic Art

 Makapansgat pebble 500,000BC

 Shell from Trinil, Java 500,000BC

 Venus of Tan-Tan 300,000BC

  Venus of Berekhrat 250,000BC

Civilizations Ur Idea and Death Cult Science Math Architecture Art

Destiny Idea
Sumerian/
Babylonian
Egyptian
Indian
Chinese
Meso-
American
Classical
Faustian