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Stone Age

23,000 BCE

1 recorded milestone at this point in the record.

c. 23,000 BCE

Agriculture

Levant

Wild cereal grinding at Ohalo II

Charred barley and wheat grains with grinding stones show cereal processing millennia before farming.

Why it mattered

Reveals a long apprenticeship with grain that preceded domestication.

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c. 30,000 BCETechnology

Ceramic firing

Central Europe

c. 28,000 BCETechnology

Spun fibre and textiles

Central Europe

c. 25,000 BCEArt & Culture

Fired ceramic figurines

Central Europe

c. 20,000 BCETechnology

Pottery vessels

East Asia

c. 18,000 BCETechnology

Jomon pottery

Japan

c. 15,000 BCEAgriculture

Domestication of the dog

Eurasia