Archaeology for All

Welcome to Archaeology for All Website

Goals of Archaeology: 

Studying Cultural History .

Reconstructing Past life ways.

Explanation of Cultural Change

Major Events From Prehistory, Post urban phase to Modern History

   Earliest nontoolmaking, but bipedal (standing on two feet)

First toolmaking hominids in East Africa.

Homo habilis at Olduvai Gorge

Emergence of Homo erectus in Africa

Homo erectus spread from tropical Africa into temperate Europe, and perhaps into Asia.

Homo erectus in Europe and northern China.

Early Homo sapiens evolving in many areas.

 Anatomically modern humans emerge, probably in tropical Africa.

Neanderthals widespread in Europe and Eurasia, also the near east. (More)

4 to 5 million years ago

  2.3 million years

1.75 million years ago 

1.5 million years ago

1million years ago

400,000 years ago

250,000 years ago

100,000 to 200,000 years ago

75,000 years ago

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