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 agoAfrica

    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 agoAsia

    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 BPAfrica

    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