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| c. 1.7 million years ago |
| | | The ice ages set in, to continue throughout most of human history | |
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| c. 1.7 million years ago |
| | | Homo erectus, moves out of Africa and begins to spread through Europe and Asia | |
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| 1.6 million years ago |
| | | A Homo erectus boy, aged about ten, lives near Lake Turkana in Kenya and dies at Nariokotome | |
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| c. 1.6 million years ago |
| | | Humans in coastal areas of South Africa extend their diet to include shellfish and other marine sources of food | |
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| c. 1 million years ago |
| | | It is impossible to know when and how human beings first speak, but elementary speech may well go back a million years | |
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| c. 800,000 years ago |
| | | The last common ancestor of modern humans and Neanderthals evolves in Africa (possibly the species known as Homo Rhodesiensis) | |
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| 800,000 years ago |
| | | Humans are by this time living in Britain, in what is now Norfolk, and are making stone tools | |
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| c. 500,000 years ago |
| | | Peking man shelters in caves south of modern Beijing, leaving many scraps of evidence of his way of life | |
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| c. 500,000 years ago |
| | | Fire is used in China by Peking man, and may have been in use much earlier in Africa | |
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| c. 250,000 years ago |
| | | A spear of hardened yew, presumably flung or thrust by a human, fixes itself between the ribs of an elephant in what is now Saxony | |
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