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For most of our existence, humans were foragers. How did our early human ancestors live before we began farming and invented grocery stores?

Investigating how early humans evolved and lived helps us answer these questions. Most people give our big brains all the credit, but that’s only part of the story.

These people were the first humans, the ancestors of all nations, and they spread across the Earth. It was from Uthlanga that the ancestors of the Zulu journeyed south to the fertile lands they inhabit today.

The Paleolithic era, marked by the use of stone tools, is the first major age in human history. It spans from the appearance of Homo sapiens to the advent of agriculture.

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Historians currently think that anatomically modern humans have been around for between 200,000 and 300,000 of the planet’s 4.5 billion years. And even though 200,000 years is less than one 20,000th of …

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The origin of humans and early human societies, a tutorial in Technological and environmental transformations (to c. 600 BCE), the first period in the AP World History course.

Paleolithic groups developed increasingly complex tools and objects made of stone and natural fibers.