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Science, Technology and Society

SCIENCE - TECHNOLOGY - SOCIETY

Beginning of the LOWER PALEOLITHIC ERA

Out of the Frying Pan and into the FIRE

1.6 Million Years go

METALLURGY, TEXTILES AND OTHER CRAFTS

The Domestication of Animals - Africa's Animals

500 B.C

Animal Domestication is what the scholars call the process of developing mutually useful relationship between animals and humans.

The Lower Paleolithic Era is home to the first evidence of human behavior, like the development of STONE TOOLS.

THE OLDOWAN TRADITION

2.5 Million Years Ago

The discovery of fire, or more precisely the controlled use of fire, of necessity, one of the earliest and most important of human discoveries

The Oldowan is the oldest-known stone tool industry. Dating as far back as 2.5 million years ago, these tools are a major milestone in human evolutionary history: the earliest evidence of cultural behavior. Homo habilis, an ancestor of Homo sapiens, manufactured Oldowan tools.

Middle Paleolithic Evidence

SCIENCE - TECHNOLOGY - SOCIETY

The earliesy definitive evidence of human control of fire was found at Oldowan Hominid sites in the Lake Turkana, region of Kenya. This site known as Koobi Fora was dated at about 1.6 million years ago.

SCIENCE - TECHNOLOGY - SOCIETY

NEOLITHIC

(11,000 - 5,5000 YA)

THE BRONZE AGE

(3,000 BC)

THE IRON AGE

12th Century BCE

PALEOLITHIC

(2.5 MYA)

A great advance in technology - the Acheulean

1.8 Million Years Ago

SHIPBUILDING AND HORSEMEN

WATER for ALL

TRANSPORTATION

From Hunting and Gathering to AGRICULTURE

12,000- 15,000 Years Ago.

End of Pliocene Geologic Period and start of the Pleistocene Geologic Period. Oldowan Tradition is replaced by the more advanced Acheulean Tradition which became the standard tool making practice of the Lower Paleolithic Era throughout Africa and much of Asia and Europe.

Where did Agriculture begin?

- The Fertile Crescent.

SCIENCE -TECHNOLOGY - SOCIETY

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