Snapshot from chapter 1

Question 1

Earliest bipedal hominids

Answer 1

7 to 6 million years ago

Question 2

Homo habilis (earliest use of stone tools)

Answer 2

2.5 million years ago

Question 3

Homo erectus (first controlled use of fire and first hominid migrations out of Africa)

Answer 3

1.9 million to 200,000 years ago

Question 4

Earliest Homo sapiens in Africa

Answer 4

250,000 years ago

Question 5

Beginnings of human migration out of Africa

Answer 5

100,000 years ago

Question 6

Human entry into eastern Asia

Answer 6

70,000 years ago

Question 7

Human entry into Australia (first use of boats)

Answer 7

60,000-40,000 years ago

Question 8

Human entry into Europe

Answer 8

40,000 years ago

Question 9

Extinction of large mammals in Australia

Answer 9

30,000 years ago

Question 10

Human entry into the Americas

Answer 10

30,000-15,000 years ago

Question 11

Cave art in Europe

Answer 11

25,000 years ago

Question 12

Extinction of Neanderthals

Answer 12

25,000 years ago

Question 13

End of last Ice Age (global warming)

Answer 13

16,000-10,000 years ago

Question 14

Earliest agricultural revolutions

Answer 14

12,000-10,000 years ago

Question 15

Extinction of large mammals in North America

Answer 15

11,000 years ago

Question 16

Austronesian migration to Pacific islands and Madagascar

Answer 16

3,500-1,000 years ago

Question 17

Human entry into New Zealand (last major region to receive human settlers)

Answer 17

1,000 years ago