Search results
Prehistory – Period between the appearance of Homo ("humans"; first stone tools c. three million years ago) and the invention of writing systems (for the Ancient Near East: c. five thousand years ago).
28 wrz 2023 · Prehistory is divided into two main time periods: The Stone Age. It lasted approximately from 2,500,000 years ago to 4000 BC. This period is divided into the Paleolithic, Mesolithic, and Neolithic. The Metal Ages. It stretched from 5000 to 1000 BC. This period is divided into the Copper Age, the Bronze Age and the Iron Age. See also ...
6 cze 2023 · Prehistory is typically divided into several distinct periods based on archaeological and anthropological evidence, and it covers the time from the emergence of the earliest hominids to the invention of writing.
27 wrz 2019 · The Prehistoric Period—or when there was human life before records documented human activity—roughly dates from 2.5 million years ago to 1,200 B.C. It is generally categorized in...
The geologic time scale for pre-human time periods, and the three-age system for human prehistory, were systematised during the nineteenth century in the work of British, French, German, and Scandinavian anthropologists, archaeologists, and antiquarians.
Prehistory, the vast period of time before written records or human documentation, includes the Neolithic Revolution, Neanderthals and Denisovans, Stonehenge, the Ice Age and more.
This timeline of prehistory covers the time from the appearance of Homo sapiens approximately 315,000 years ago in Africa to the invention of writing, over 5,000 years ago, with the earliest records going back to 3,200 BC.
