Prehistory

Homo erectus:

1.9 million years ago
Stone Age:

2.6 million years ago - 3300 BCE
Neolithic:

10,000-2000 BCE
Bronze Age:

3300-1200 BCE (Near East)
Let's use our brains more

Digital Revolution

Homo erectus brain size: 550-1250 cm³

Our brains haven't changed that much, but our tools have. My hand axe is digital.

Homo sapiens brain size: 1000-1500 cm³

Stone tools

Bone flute

Cooking and food storage

Neanderthals lived in Eurasia until 40,000 years ago

Mammoth's speech bubble:

I don’t like Neanderthal lunches

Mammoth's speech bubble:

Too bad I didn’t live to see it.
Neolithic woman's speech bubble:

10,000 years ago people started planting grains and domesticating animals.
Bronze Age tools speech bubble:

Bronze tools, first writing, city-states.

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