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3 millions years ago - 5,000 years ago the first stone tools, the invention of writing systems. Devided into a three age system.
Protohistory
Eurocentric - Eurasia and North Africa. -
3.4 millions year - 8700 to 20000 BCE, first use of stone tools, metalworking, subdivided by the types os stone tools used, contemporaneous with the evolution of the genus Homo.
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Is the "Late Stone Age" and they learn to control fire acheulean manufacture.
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Hunting and gathering, homo erectus coexisted with Neanderthals.
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Homo sapiens thrived and Neanderthals extinguished, sedentism and end of the final glaciation.
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Homo and Canis begin to coexist in symbiosis and Humans started to domesticate plants and animals.
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Pottery manufacture, polished stone tools, neolithic revolution / Agricultural Revolution.