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| c. 2.6 million to 14,000 years ago |
| | | The Palaeolithic era or Old Stone age begins, characterized by hominid and human use of unpolished chipped stone tools | |
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| c. 2.6 to 1.2 million years ago |
| | | Australopithecus Boisei lives in East Africa, and is possibly the first hominid species to use stone tools | |
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| c. 2.5 million years ago |
| | | The earliest known chipped stone tools are made by hominids at Gona, in the Awash Valley in Ethiopia, close to the region where Ardi and Lucy lived many millennia earler | |
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| c. 150,000 years ago |
| | | A possible second migration from Africa begins, involving at some time the ancestors of modern man, Homo sapiens sapiens | |
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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. 14,000 to 10,000 years ago |
| | | During the Mesolithic period (Middle Stone Age) humans continue to improve their tool-making skills but are still nomads and hunter-gatherers | |
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| c. From 8000 BC |
| | | The Neolithic period (New Stone Age) includes any settled human community still using exclusively stone tools | |
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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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