Stone Age
2 recorded milestones at this point in the record.
A systematic tradition of choppers, scrapers and hammerstones associated with Homo habilis.
Why it mattered
The first true technological tradition, transmitted across generations.
Long-limbed, endurance-walking hominids spread across Eurasia.
Why it mattered
The first global expansion of a human ancestor, seeding populations from Georgia to Java.
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East Africa
Africa
East Africa
Africa and Levant
Levant
Southern Africa