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c. 15 million years ago
 
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A primate of this period, at ease both in the trees and on the ground, is probably the common ancestor of gorillas, chimpanzees and humans      
c. 6 million years ago
 
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Various species of ape develop the habit of walking upright on two feet      
c. 4.5 million years ago
 
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Certain primates, in eastern and southern Africa, are by now sufficiently like humans to be classed as hominids      
77,000 years ago
 
   
In the Blombos cave in South Africa stones are engraved with patterns of lines, either decorative or practical (as a form of tally)      
Engraved red ochre stone, from the Blombos cave


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c. 30,000 years ago
 
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Painted and engraved images, on the rock face in a cave near Twyfelfontein in Namibia, date from this period