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Look further into the past Roughly chronologically ordered:
Antiquity
- Shelter
- Play
- Dancing
- Medicine ### 2 Million years+
- Language
- Clothing
- Fire
- Cooking
- Wood working
- Boats
- Jewellery
- Blades
- Bone tools
- Pigments
- Pantry
- Stone age = 400,000 years+ =
- Trade
- Rope making
- Spears
- Music
- Narrative
- Glue = 200,000 years+ =
- Arrows
- Sewing
- Complex Paint
- Funerals
- Hearths
- Fishing = 50,000 years+ =
- Cave paintings
- Bead making
- Ceramics
- Weaving
- Shoes
- Tally marks
- The oldest continuously told story
- Property
- Surgery
- Pottery
- Dog's domesticated
- Fish hooks = 10,000 years+ =
- Agriculture, irrigation
- Fermentation
- Bread
- Cheese
- Architecture
- Writing
- Wheel = 5,000 years+ =
- Astronomy
- Mathematics
- Sails
- Crafted currency
- Bronze age = 1,000 years+ =
- Iron age
- Calendars
- Gunpowder
- Paper
- Printing press
- Trains ### 100 years+
- Steam engine
- Airplanes
- Rockets
- Internet