The beginnings of human history

  • 9600 BCE

    The end of the Paleolithic Age

    They began to make more complex tools,interacted with each other more and began storing food and the Mesolithic age began
  • 2 BCE

    The Paleolithic Age begins

    Humans begin using stone for tools
  • 1 BCE

    Ice ages bring change

    Their food supply was limited,the water levels dropped,and plants died
  • 2

    The first tools

    One of the first tools is called a hammer stone
  • 2

    Where they lived

    Evidence shows that the early humans lived in Africa
  • 2

    Food and shelter

    early people were nomads or hunter gathers
  • 2

    Early art

    Early humans began to create their own culture and expressed it through cave paintings and bead work
  • 2

    Creating technology

    They started to make more complex tools like axes,spears,and choppers
  • 2

    The birth of a language

    Humans came up with a way to share information with each other
  • 2

    Out of africa

    They moved out of Africa but no one knows why and it took them thousands of years to move to new places
  • Period: 2 to 1 CE

    The beginnings of human history