Migration & Human Development

Australopithecus

200,000 BCE

Lived 4 millions years ago , in Ethiopia.
First hominid
Lived in the forests, mainly in the trees.
Start of the evolution chain

Homo Erectus

200,000 BCE

1.8 million years ago
Proportional
Standing erect
Out of Africa

Homo Sapiens

200,000 BCE

200,000 years ago
All forms of human like organisms

Moving from Africa

200,000 BCE

2 million years ago
Early hominids were said to have "crossed land bridges that were eventually covered in water"
Thus affected them because they had to adapt when they moved from Africa and find difffernt things to help them survive.

The last ice age

200,000 BCE

Started 2.6 Million years ago & lasted until lasted until about 11,700 years ago. This is the most recent Iceage & as glaciers covered huge parts of the planet Earth.
This affectedhow people lived because they had to work around the glaciers and have limited materials and resources

Homohablis

200,000 BCE

Around 2.5 million years ago
First tool making hominid
Small stone tools used to kill,process, or make things.
First one usually found is a teardrop shaped axe. Used to bash something in. Second tool is a longer rock with a point so they can scrap an animal down to the skin to use. Important because it was the first part of the evolutionary train that started and passed it on. Really important for human evolution

Mountobia

71,000 BCE

ancient volcano located in the Barisan Mountains, northcentral Sumatra, Indonesia
A huge eruption sometime between 71,000 and 74,000 years ago
Affected if people could live there and get materials from there

Clothing

50,000 BCE

this was mainly leftover parts of animals that they couldnt eat or use to kill or help eat them.
Animal Skin & fur was used for clothing
this imroved how they lived because it kept them warm and gave their skin some protection
50,000 BCE

Needles

40,000 BCE

Sharpened animal bones
sometimes used as spears and had the ability to kill animals for food which gave them more food sources
400000 bce

the invention of fire

20,000 BCE

at 300 degrees, creates fire too cook food, making it easier to digest, & better nutrition equals a better brain.
one of the most complex structure's fire
protects from most predators around 2 million years ago was started but didn't become big until 20,000 years ago this improved and gave more opions for food

Domestication in the Zagros mountains

9000 BCE

Wild sheep and goats were domesticated in the zagros mountain. This was hypnotized to be the first domestication of these types of animals to the society because she could be used for a number of things like clothes. It also affected migration patterns because the people would have to move wherever there was grass for them to eat.

Agriculture

9000 BCE

the invention​ of agriculture started around 9000 BCE
Hunting and gathering slowly but they got what they needed
helped people eat and have more choices on what to eat

Founding of Jericho

7000 BCE

walled in
raised animals and grew crops to survive​ outside the wall
showed people were starting to finally settle
imoproved people wanting to stay somewhere and not always be on the move
7,000 BCE

Landbridge

200,000

21,000 years ago
The Bering Land Bridge , is thought to have been up to 600 miles wide.
Affected people by how they would move and where they would. Also affected how they used resources and what they could use.