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8ooo BCE - 6oo BCE
8001 BCE
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Emerged in southern and east Africa around 3 - 4 million years ago.
At this time Sapiens Sapiens is thought to have begun the move out of Africa @ 72,000 BCE
1. Australopithecus
2. Homo erectus
3.Homo habilis
4.Homo sapiens
Ages
Lower Paleolithic 300,000-70,000 BC Old Stone Age
Middle Paleolithic 70,000-12,000 BC
Upper Paleolithic 35,000-12,000 BC
Mesolithic 12,000-10,000 BC Middle Stone Age
Migration
Africa -> Middle East (100,000 years ago) -> SE Asia and India (70,000 years ago) -> China (67,000 years ago) ->Australia and Oceania (50,000 years ago) -> Europe, Central Asia, and Siberia (40,000 years ago)
*To America
- Still unknown. Some believe they crossed the Bering land bridge 15,000 years ago.
8ooo BCE - 45oo BCE
8000 BCE - 4000 BCE
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8000 BCE
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First signs of farming and domestication of wild plants such as squash on the tropical coast of Ecuador and rice along the marshy banks of the Yangtze in China.
First to be tamed was the dog.
The first signs of sophisticated and domesticated plants and animals being dispersed into new areas of the Fertile Crescent. This included the range of founder crops, and the introduction into Cyprus of the domesticated Mesopotamian fallow deer, with sheep, goats and cattle.
Humans had settled in all but the most inhospitable parts of the globe.
8000 BCE - 4500 BCE
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Lived in natural dwellings.
The start of fire.
The first weapons: rocks, clubs.
Built Tools.
Social:
Based on kinship group which survived off of hunting and foraging.
Often practiced nomadism. Didn't have a complex class structure.
Start of gender inequality.
Religion:
Enjoyed rich artistic and religious life.
Believed in animism or totemism, everything in the natural.
Shamans are religious leaders.
The two best-known examples of the remains of Neolithictowns are at Jericho and Çatal Hüyük. Jericho, on the west bank of the JordanRiver, was a walled town with mud-brick structures and dates back to 8000B.C.E.
5000 BCE
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World population is at 10 million.
45oo BCE - 3ooo BCE
4500 BCE - 3000 BCE
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3ooo BCE - 25oo BCE
3000 BCE - 2500 BCE
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25oo BCE - 2ooo BCE
2500 BCE - 2000 BCE
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2ooo BCE - 12oo BCE
2000 BCE - 1200 BCE
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