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PreHistory Timeline
Prehistory
7700000BC-35000BC
Discovery of skull
7700000 BC
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Skull found Man or Ape
Ardi
4400000 BC
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Walked upright but more slowly than Lucy
"Ardi"www.nytimes.com/2009/10/02/.../02fossil.html?
Lucy
3200000 BC - 2000000 BC
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HOMO HABLIS
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(handy man)
Discovered by Mary Leakey
Paleolithic
2500000BC-7500BC
Paleo--old
lithic-stone
lithic-stone
Old Stone Age
2500000 BC - 7500 BC
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Discovered Fire
No longer restricted to warmer climates
homo erectus
1900000 BC - 70000 BC
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may have been the first to migrate
Knew about fire
Neanderthals
200000 BC - 50000 BC
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Used stone tools
First to bury dead
Named for Neander Germany where first skulls found.
Homo sapiens
100000 BC - 10000 BC
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First to communicate. This helped them organize hunts, begin migration;weapons
Ice Age
70000 BC - 10000 BC
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Ice Age
Cave Drawings
Animism
Buried Dead
Neolithic
7500BC-3000BC
The Neolithic Revolution was a fundamental change in the way people lived. The shift from hunting & gathering to agriculture led to permanent settlements, the establishment of social classes, and the eventual rise of civilizations. The Neolithic Revolution is a major turning point in human history.
Revolution
10000 BC - 6000 BC
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Farming began in SW Asia
Cleared trees for land
Domesticated animals
Domesticated plants
Tools
Build huts
moved in clans Began to cluster in communities
New Stone Age
8000 BC
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Farming starts
Domestication of plants and animals
River Valley Civilizations
Catalhoyuk-farming village
Uruk-First City
Cities
Economy
First Civilizations
6000
Uruk
6000 BC
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First city
Had government (priests)
http://www.britishmuseum.org/images/Uruk/web_large/Uruk-416.jpg
Began to trade Had walls--for defense?
River Valley Civilization
4000 BC
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River Valley
Mesopotamia
China
Egypt
Indus Valley