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| c. 27,000 years ago |
| | | In the earlist known example of ceramics, humans at Dolni Vestonice model figures in burnt clay | |
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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. 8000 BC |
| | | The spindle develops naturally in the process of twisting fibres into thread by hand | |
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| c. 7000 BC |
| | | Neolithic communities in eastern Anatolia make implements of hammered copper - the first tentative step out of the Stone Age | |
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| c. 5800 BC |
| | | Fragments of cloth, woven in Catal Huyuk, survive because they are carbonized in a fire | |
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| c. 4400 BC |
| | | The first evidence of a loom comes from this period in Egypt, but some simple method of holding the warp must be as old as weaving | |
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| c. 4000 BC |
| | | In Mesopotamia, and on the grass steppes of southern Russia, oxen are used to pull heavy loads on sledges | |
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| c. 4000 BC |
| | | A simple hand-held plough is in use in Egypt and Mesopotamia, at least 1000 years before a heavier version is pulled by oxen | |
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| c. 3800 BC |
| | | Copper is extracted from ore by smelting at various sites in Iran | |
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| c. 3000 BC |
| | | An easily portable writing surface is developed, from the papyrus plant of the Nile | |
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