history of technology

Early technology
Agriculture preceded writing in the history of technology.

* Olduvai stone technology (Olduwan) 2.5 million years ago (scrapers; to butcher dead animals)
* Acheulean stone technology 1.6 million years ago (hand axe)
* Fire creation and manipulation, used since the Paleolithic, possibly by Homo erectus as early as 1.5 Million years ago
* (Homo sapiens sapiens - modern human anatomy arises, around 200,000 years ago.)
* Clothing possibly 100,000 years ago.
* Stone tools, used by Homo floresiensis, possibly 100,000 years ago.
* Ceramics ca. 25,000 BC
* Domestication of Animals, ca. 15,000 BC
* Bow, sling ca. 9th millennium BC
* Microliths ca. 9th millennium BC
* Copper ca. 8000 BC
* Agriculture and Plough ca. 8000 BC
* Wheel ca. 4000 BC
* Gnomon ca. 4000 BC
* Writing systems ca. 3500 BC
* Bronze ca. 3300 BC
* Salt
* Chariot ca. 2000 BC
* Iron ca. 1500 BC
* Sundial ca. 800 BC
* Glass ca. 500 BC
* Catapult ca. 400 BC
* Horseshoe ca. 300 BC
* Stirrup first few centuries AD

[edit] Stone Age