In 1938 archaeologist Luther Cressman (from the University of Oregon) excavated at Fort Rock Cave in central Oregon. Cressman found dozens of sandals below a layer of volcanic ash.
Humans invent footwear, perhaps sagebrush bark sandals in modern-day Oregon Read more
Prehistory in the present territory of Argentina began with the first human settlements on the southern tip of Patagonia around 13,000 years ago.
The earliest archaeological evidence suggests that cultures existed in Burma as early as 11,000 B.C.E. The Anyathian, Burma’s Stone Age, existed at a time thought to parallel the lower and middle Paleolithic in Europe.
The Anyathian culture emerges in modern-day Myanmar Read more
The history of the domesticated sheep goes back to between 11000 and 9000 B.C.E., and the domestication of the wild mouflon in ancient Mesopotamia.
Humans domesticate the sheep Read more
The earliest evidence of dental caries intervention on a Late Upper Palaeolithic modern human specimen (Villabruna) is from a burial in Northern Italy.
Archaeological studies have found that early human settlers arrived in West Africa around 12,000 B.C.E.
Humans migrate to West Africa Read more
Dating to around c. 13,000 B.C.E., a cave painting in the Trois Frères cave in France depicts what some believe is a musical bow, a hunting bow used as a single-stringed musical instrument.
The Aónikenk people, better known by the exonym Tehuelche, are a group of indigenous peoples of Patagonia. They are widely believed to be the basis for the Patagones described by European explorers.
The Aónikenk people emerge in modern-day Argentina Read more
A bear bone found in Alice and Gwendoline Cave, County Clare, in 1903 may push back dates for the earliest human settlement of Ireland to 10,500 B.C.E. The bone shows clear signs of cut marks with stone tools, and has been radiocarbon dated to 12,500 years ago.
Early humans settle Ireland for the first time Read more
The bullroarer, rhombus, or turndun, is an ancient ritual musical instrument and a device historically used for communicating over great distances.
Humans invent the bullroarer, perhaps in modern-day Ukraine Read more
