Prehistory History Of Writing Timeline
5 300 years ago and it took thousands of years for writing systems to be widely adopted.
Prehistory history of writing timeline. In the history of how writing systems have evolved in different human civilizations more complete writing systems were preceded by proto writing systems of ideographic or early mnemonic symbols symbols or letters that make remembering. This timeline of human prehistory comprises the time from the first appearance of homo sapiens in africa 200 000 years ago to the invention of writing and the beginning of history approximately 5 500 years ago. The earliest known humans arrived in these lands around 900 000 years ago.
Seshat first mentioned as goddess of writing and measurement in the 2nd dynasty of the early dynastic period of egypt. An introduction to prehistoric england before ad 43 prehistory is the time before written records. Beginning of literature in sumerian.
This timeline of human prehistory comprises the time from the first appearance of homo sapiens in africa 300 000 years ago to the invention of writing and the beginning of history 5 000 years ago it thus covers the time from the middle paleolithic old stone age to the very beginnings of world history. The divisions used are those delineating the european stone age. It s the period of human history we know the least about but it s also the longest by far.
Human prehistory is the period between the use of the first stone tools by hominins c. Earth s beginnings can be traced back 4 5 billion years but human evolution only counts for a tiny speck of its history. 3 3 million years ago and the invention of writing systems the use of symbols marks and images appears very early among humans but the earliest known writing systems appeared c.
All dates are approximate subject to revision based on new discoveries or analyses. It covers the time from the middle paleolithic old stone age to the very beginnings of the bronze age. 2890 bce 2670 bce.
Prehistory the vast period of time before written records or human documentation includes the neolithic revolution neanderthals and denisovans stonehenge the ice age and more. The history of writing traces the development of expressing language by letters or other marks and also the studies and descriptions of these developments. Life of enheduanna daughter of sargon of akkad and world s first author known by name.
2285 bce 2250 bce. It is a huge amount of time and includes hundreds of.