Back to the Know! home page.B.C. 4,000,000 - Earliest known homonids
B.C. 1,750,000 - Definite stone tools
B.C. 600,000 - Pithecanthropus evolves
B.C. 200,000 - Possible Homo Sapiens; use of fire
B.C. 95,000 - Homo Sapiens definitely evolved; burial of dead
B.C. 40,000 - Modern man appears
B.C. 30,000 - Earliest art
B.C. 9,000 - Beginnings of animal husbandry, probably also of agriculture
reprinted from The Columbia History of the World, 1972, published by Harper & Row, edited by John A. Garraty & Peter Gay
Note: The above represents the currently accepted scientific chronology of man. The Know! pages do not necessarilay ageee with the above figures. The above dates are provided to give the reader perspective.
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