Stone Age
2 recorded milestones at this point in the record.
Hearths at Wonderwerk and Gesher Benot Ya'aqov show deliberately maintained fire.
Why it mattered
Cooking unlocked calories, extended the day, warmed the north and centred social life on the hearth.
The Schoeningen spears, balanced javelins of spruce, preserved in waterlogged sediment.
Why it mattered
Proof of coordinated big-game hunting hundreds of millennia before modern humans.
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