12 Agustus 2008
Early technology
- Olduvai stone technology (Olduwan) 2.5 million years ago (scrapers; to butcher dead animals)
- Acheulean stone technology 1.6 million years ago (hand axe)
- Fire used since the Paleolithic, possibly by Homo erectus as early as 1.5 Million years ago
- Clothing possibly 100,000 years ago.
- Stone tools, used by Homo floresiensis, possibly 100,000 years ago.
- Domestication of Animals, ca. 15,000 BC
- Pottery ca. 11th millennium BC
- Bow, sling ca. 9th millennium BC
- Microliths ca. 9th millennium BC
- Copper ca. 8000 BC
- Agriculture and Plough ca. 8000 BC
- Wheel ca. 4000 BC
- Gnomon ca. 4000 BC
- Writing systems ca. 3500 BC
- Bronze ca. 3300 BC
- Salt
- Chariot ca. 2000 BC
- Iron ca. 1500 BC
- Sundial ca. 800 BC
- Glass ca. 500 BC
- Catapult ca. 400 BC
- Horseshoe ca. 300 BC
- Stirrup first few centuries AD
