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.
Fossils from Olduvai Gorge in Tanzania show a hominin with a markedly larger braincase associated with stone tool debris.
Why it mattered
Marks the beginning of a lineage in which technology and cognition evolved together.
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