Culture & IdeasDeep prehistory

Culture & Ideas in deep prehistory

Every event in the Terralore archive tagged culture and ideas — art, language, science and learning, narrowed to deep prehistory — 3 of them, drawn from 3 nations, running from 1,800,000 BCE to 24,000 BCE. Each entry keeps the sources it was verified against and links back to the chronicle it came from.

Events
3
Nations
3
Earliest
1,800,000 BCE
Latest
24,000 BCE
Africa
2
Asia
1

Every entry below is the same record, with the same sources, as the one on its nation’s chronicle.

  1. c. 1.8 million years ago — Africa:

    Tanzania

    Homo habilis and Oldowan tools at Olduvai

    Early members of the genus Homo at Olduvai Gorge make simple flaked-pebble tools of the Oldowan industry, among the earliest manufactured implements known.

    Era: Cradle of Humankind: Olduvai and Laetoli

    Sources: Olduvai Gorge · Wikipedia, Palaeoanthropological Sites of Human Evolution: Laetoli–Olduvai Gorge · International Union of Geological Sciences

  2. c. 40,000 years ago — Asia:

    Azerbaijan

    The rock art of Gobustan

    On a plateau south of Baku, prehistoric peoples carved more than 6,000 engravings of hunters, animals and boats, leaving a record of roughly 40,000 years of human activity later inscribed by UNESCO.

    Era: Gobustan, Caucasian Albania and the land of fire

    Sources: Gobustan Rock Art Cultural Landscape · UNESCO World Heritage Centre

  3. c. 24,000 BP — Africa:

    Botswana

    Rock art at Tsodilo Hills

    San hunter-gatherers paint the Tsodilo Hills; some images are dated to around 24,000 years before present, part of a record of over 4,500 paintings.

    Era: Hunters, Herders and the Painted Hills

    Sources: Tsodilo (World Heritage List) · UNESCO World Heritage Centre, Tsodilo · Wikipedia, Tsodilo Hills, Botswana — African Rock Art · British Museum