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DATING | MAJOR EVENTS | ARCHAEOLOGICAL PICTURES |
- 1.530.000 years | The first preserved fingerprints of our ancestors “This footprint is the earliest undisputed evidence of Homo erectus (probably) walking in an efficient style as we do. »The prints were found in Koobi Fora , located on the eastern shore of Lake Turkana, in the nomadic Gabbra Kenya. | |
- 1.500.000 years | The first human beings make bone tools Experiments and microscopic studies show that the ends of bone tools found in Swartkrans , Republic ofSouth Africa, were used by early humans to dig termite mounds. | |
- 400.000 years | The first use of pigments Natural pigments such as ochres et iron oxides have been used as dyes since prehistoric times. Archaeologists have discovered evidence that early humans used them for aesthetic painting purposes such as body decoration. They were discovered in the cave of Twin Rivers, near Lusaka, in Zambia .
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-100.000 years | First painting workshop À Cave Blombos east of Cape Town, South Africa, a team of researchers discovered the first paint shop in 2008. The site contained the tools and ingredients with which early modern humans probably mixed some of the earliest known paint.
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- 75.000 years | The oldest known bedding and the use of medicinal plants En South Africaor a Sibudu, people built sedge and other monocot plant bedding topped with aromatic leaves containing insecticidal and larvicidal chemicals. | |
-73.000 years
| First attempt to record information Pieces of ocher rock were found at Cave Blombos en South Africa, near Cape Town in 2002. This ocher plate has marks that could have been used to count or store information.
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-68.000 years
| In the Sibudu cave: the very first known creation and the use of composite glues In the Sibudu Cave , in a sandstone cliff in the north from KwaZulu-Natal , South Africa, in this busy site, has been found certain proof of the first examples of modern human technology with the use of composite glues.
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-35.000 years
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