1. Paleolithic - Neolithic
Paleolithic or Old Stone Age dates from the first stone tool makers (approx. 2 million BCE) to about 10,000 BCE.
Strong archeological evidence indicates the first humans came from Africa

2. The oldest human footprints in the world were unearthed at Laetoli, near Olduvai Gorge, in Tanzinia. These footprints led Owen Lovejoy to conclude that even these early hominids walked with an upright, striding gait just as modern humans do.

3. Lucy - is one of the oldest and most complete skeletons of human ancestry, which was discovered by Don Johanson in Ethiopia's Afar Triangle.

4. Otzi, the oldest mummy ever unearthed, was found in the Italian Alps in Scientists were thrilled to find he had remained frozen, and almost perfectly preserved, for thousands of years.

5. Otzi…..The Ice Man
He wore clothing made from leather and grasses and carried a copper axe, a bow and arrows. Speculation immediately began about who he was and why he died where he did, but it was hard to do too much checking without damaging his body. Later, an arrowhead was found in his left shoulder, suggesting Otzi did not simply freeze to death while climbing the high mountains, but was shot by a fellow hunter. After studying the corpse's intestines, Italian researcher Professor Franco Rollo, an archaeologist at the Universita di Camerino in Italy concluded last year that the iceman's final meals consisted of venison and ibex meat.

6. Characteristics of Paleolithic Period
The people were hunters and gatherers
They lived in small groups of about people
Men/women division of labor
Nomadic people who followed game and ripening fruit
Developed simple tools from stone, bone or wood
Invented clothing
Cave paintings and religious rituals

7. In a handful of pierced seashells found in a South African cave, scientists believe that they have discovered the world’s oldest known jewelry and the earliest reliabile evidence of creative symbolic thought at work. The 41 tiny shells, unearthed at Blombos Cave, were strung as beads more than 75,00 years ago, making them at least 30,000 years older than any other reliably dated personal ornaments….

9. Neolithic Period
Approx. 10,000 years ago Hunter and Gatherers began to farm
Life became more sedentary and permanent villages developed
Seed planting and animal domestication
Neolithic people became food producers

10. Out of Africa

11. Characteristics of Neolithic Period
Councils of elders began making decisions
Individuals accumulated more personal property
Some type of calendar invented
Animals used in field work
These innovations led to the emergence of civilizations

13. Skara Brae An early Neolithic village