History by historical land mass is yet another wonderful lens into knowledge. These insights are the backbone to Mike‘s articles and his longer effort books. A part of his lifelong commitment to study. While they are not complete, they are useful.
History of the Lands: Africa & Middle East
Early Stone Tools
3.3 Million BCE
Hominins
Olduvai Gorge Site: A Glimpse into Early Organizational Behavior
2 Million Years Ago (Up to about 15,000 years ago)
Hand Axe
1.76 Million BCE
Oldest Modern Human-like Footprints
1.52 Million BCE
1.53 to 1.51 Million BCE
Chimpanzee-Bonobo Split
1.5 Million Years Ago (+/- 500,000 years)
Fire-Altered Stone Tools
790,000 BCE
Genus Homo
Hominin World Population: 2 Million (speculative)
700,000 BCE
Highly speculative. Based on rational analysis of the great apes.
First Clothes: Proto-Clothing and the Advent of Garments
600,000 Years Age
Hominin World Population: 2 Million (maybe)
300,000 BCE
Very speculative.
Extinction: Homo heidelbergensis
200,000 Years Ago
Seasonal Settlements at Klasies River Caves
125,000 BCE
125,000 to 60,000 BCE
Earliest Known Prepared Burial, “Mtoto”
76,000 BCE
Blombos Cave Engravings
75,000 BCE
World Population: 1.5 Million
By 70,000 BCE
Lebombo bone: First Lunar Phase Counter
42,200 BCE
44,200 to 43,000 years old according to 24 radiocarbon tests
The Invention of Bread
Before 14,400 BCE
Middle East
Tell Abu Hureyra
circa 11,500 BCE
Evidence of farming: rye seeds
World Population: 4 Million
10,000 BCE
Estimates range from 2 to 5 million
Göbekli Tepe Culture (11000 BCE to 8000 BCE)
Start of heyday: circa 9600 BCE
Initial construction circa 11,000 BCE (13,000 years ago)
Jericho Founded
9000 BCE
Plaster Invented
before 9000 BCE
Egypt: Nabta Playa (Agrarian)
circa 7500 BCE
Middle East Agrarian Society
Ain Ghazal Statues: Early Plaster Art
circa 7200 BCE
Jordan
City of Catalhoyuk
7,100 BCE
7,100 to 5,700 BCE
Beer, Ale, Wine
circa 7000 BCE
9,000 Years Ago
Atlit Yam Neolithic Village
6900 to 6300 BCE
Origins over 9,000 Years Ago
Early Sumer Civilization
6500 BCE
6500 through 1900 BCE
4004 BCE, The Bible’s Earth Creation Date
4,004 BCE
Sunday, October 23, 4004 BCE
Man Made Glass
3500 BCE
Cuneiform Writing
3400 BCE
3400 BCE to 100 CE (end of use for scholarly work)
Oldest Known Dice: Skara Brae
3100 BCE
By 5,100 Years Ago
World Population: 15 Million
3000 BCE
Estimates range from 9 to 16 million
Fuente Magna Bowl: Forgery or Real?
3000 BCE
South America: 5,000 Years Ago
Gilgamesh, circa 2700 BCE
King of Uruk
King Shuruppak
circa 2600 BCE
The Wise King
Oldest Known Library: Ebla
2350 BCE
2500 BCE to 2250 BCE
Noah’s Flood Myth
2348 BCE
Proto-Sinaitic script
1900 BCE
1900-1500 BCE
Code of Hammurabi
1755 BCE
Frescoes of the Tomb of Nebamun
circa 1350 BCE
Oldest Known Monotheistic Religion: Atenism
1344 BCE
circa 1340 to 1320 BCE
Phoenician Alphabet
1300 BCE
1500-1100 BCE
Thales of Miletus (624 – 546 BCE)
Early or "First" Science
The Grandfather of Western Philosophy
Library of Ashurbanipal
Built circa 700 BCE, destroyed 612 BCE.
Philo of Alexandria
b. circa 20 BCE
circa 20 BCE to circa 55 CE
Augustine of Hippo
born 354
354 to 430 CE
Al-Farabi
born 872
872 to 950
Alhazen
born 965
965 to 1040
Rediscovery of the Library of Ebla: circa 2350 BCE
1975