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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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| 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. 15,000 years ago |
| | | Needles of bone or ivory are now fine enough to take a thread as thin as horse hair | |
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| c. 15,000 years ago |
| | | Archaeological evidence reveals that the central plains of north America by now have a widespread human population | |
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| 15,000 to 10,000 years ago |
| | | Hunter-gatherers gradually extend their territory far into South America | |
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| c. 8000 BC |
| | | The ending of the most recent ice age, making large prey extinct and the land more fertile, both prompts and enables humans to develop permanent settlements | |
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| c. 8000 BC |
| | | Emmer and Einkorn are the two types of wheat cultivated as the first crops in the Neolithic Revolution | |
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| c. 8000 BC |
| | | Sun-dried bricks are used in the construction of buildings in Jericho | |
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| c. 8000 BC |
| | | The spindle develops naturally in the process of twisting fibres into thread by hand | |
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| c. 8000 BC |
| | | Any community growing and storing grain, surrounded by other groups dependent on gathering food, has a new and urgent need for protection from its neighbours | |
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