2800000 BC-03-09 13:08:29 n the March 4 online issue of the journal Science, Brian Villmoare and his team of anthropologists published a study of a fossilized jawbone unearthed in Ethiopia. This fossil, dating to 2.8[…]
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First tools used by Pre-Historic man
3400000 BC-02-23 19:24:32 Fossils provide the first evidence that Lucy’s species Australopithecus afarensis, used stone tools to butcher meat 14000
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Lucy – Australopithecus
3200000 BC-02-23 19:24:47 Lucy is the common name of AL 288-1, several hundred pieces of bone representing about 40% of the skeleton of a female Australopithecus afarensis. 15000
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First observable human structure
21000 BC-12-01 00:00:00 The structure is a stone wall that blocked two-thirds of the entrance to the Theopetra cave near Kalambaka on the north edge of the Thessalian plain. It was constructed 23,000 years ago,[…]
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Earliest known form of writing
5500 BC-12-01 00:00:00 The Tărtăria tablets are three tablets, discovered in 1961 by archaeologist Nicolae Vlassa at a Neolithic site in the village of Tărtăria (about 30 km (19 mi) from Alba Iulia), in Romania.[…]
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