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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. 60,000 years ago |
| | | The first human inhabitants of Australia make the crossing from southeast Asia | |
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| c. 30,000 years ago |
| | | With the sea level falling, a land bridge (known as Beringia) forms between Siberia and Alaska, enabling humans to enter the continent of America | |
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| c. 8000 BC |
| | | Human communities in the Middle East cultivate crops and domesticate animals, in the Neolithic Revolution | |
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| c. 8000 BC |
| | | Wheat is grown in the Middle East - the first cereal cultivated by man | |
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| c. 8000 BC |
| | | Humans cross from eastern Siberia to the northern Japanese island of Hokkaido, according to the earliest traces left by the Jomon culture | |
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| 7000 BC |
| | | Barley is cultivated in the Middle East | |
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| c. 4000 BC |
| | | Oxen are the first draught animals, in use at this time in the Middle East and in Europe | |
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| c. 2850 BC |
| | | The Chinese discover that the cocoon of a certain worm can be unwound, spun as thread and then woven - thus creating silk | |
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