Articles about daily life across every continent and era, oldest first.
The Homo erectus skeleton Kamoya Kimeu found beside the dry Nariokotome River in 1984, dated 1.60 ± 0.05 million years, with each institution's figures.
· 1,600,000 BCPei Wenchung found the first Peking Man skull at Zhoukoudian on December 2, 1929; about 40 individuals by 1937, originals lost in 1941, casts survive.
· 770,000 BCSolecki's 1951 to 1960 trench at Shanidar Cave held 10 Neanderthals. In 2020 a Cambridge-led team reported an adult buried in a pit dug beside Shanidar 4.
· 60,000 BCScience Advances, June 12, 2020: 130 bone points at Fa-Hien Lena cave, Sri Lanka, are sized and hafted like arrows, dated to 48,000 to 34,000 years ago.
· 46,000 BCJim Bowler found burnt bones on the shore of Lake Mungo on July 15, 1968. Dated to 40,000 years in 2003, Mungo Lady and Mungo Man were reburied in 2022.
· 38,000 BCMary Pappin Jr. found the first Willandra Lakes footprints in August 2003. Optically dated to 19,000 to 23,000 years, the count rose from 124 to 563 by 2007.
· 21,000 BCForagers at Odai Yamamoto in northern Japan fired plain pots about 13,000 BC and cooked fish in them; by 3900 BC Sannai-Maruyama ate chestnuts and fish.
· 13,000 BCDried feces from an Oregon cave carried DNA a 2008 study dated to 12,300 radiocarbon years. Rebuttals, a 2012 recheck and a 2020 lipid study followed.
· 12,300 BCA 13,000-year-old mammoth kill, bison kill and camp in southeastern Arizona, sealed under black clay, and the fluted points that define Clovis.
· 11,000 BCA Natufian woman of about 45 was buried at Hilazon Tachtit, Galilee, 12,400–12,000 cal BP, with over 50 tortoise shells, a leopard pelvis and a human foot.
· 10,000 BCGrahame Clark dug Star Carr three weeks a summer, 1949 to 1951. Excavations of 2004 to 2015 recounted the finds and dated a posthole hollow to 9300 BC.
· 9300 BCÇatalhöyük's East Mound, 13 hectares on Turkey's Konya plain, held roof-entered mudbrick houses with the dead under the floors, about 7100 to 5950 BC.
· 7100 BCMehrgarh, Pakistan: the oldest known lost-wax casting, molars drilled 7,500 to 9,000 years ago and cotton thread in a copper bead, before the Indus cities.
· 7000 BCDCCEEW dates Gunditjmara stone eel-channel construction at Budj Bim to at least 6,600 years old; UNESCO inscribed the site in 2019.
· 4600 BCTajikistan's physical-technical institute dates Sarazm's first dig to 1976; Roland Besenval's 1987 paper says Isakov discovered the site in 1979.
· 3500 BCNamed in 2009 as the earliest horse-domestication site, Botai in Kazakhstan lost that claim in 2018 when DNA made its horses the ancestors of Przewalski's.
· 3500 BCTwo hikers found a body at 3,210 meters on the Tisenjoch on September 19, 1991. A survey put it 92.56 meters inside Italy; an X-ray found an arrow.
· 3300 BCGermany's archaeological institute calls Uruk one of the world's earliest metropolises: 200 hectares, perhaps 40,000 people, writing from about 3300 BC.
· 3300 BCA storm around 1850 stripped a dune at the Bay of Skaill, Orkney, and bared a kitchen midden 15 or 16 feet high. Petrie, Childe and Bayliss followed.
· 2900 BCCaral, in Peru's Supe valley, raised pyramids by 2627 BC with no pottery or maize; its farmers grew cotton for fishing nets and traded it for fish.
· 2600 BCAt Mohenjo-daro almost every house had a bathing area draining to covered street drains big enough for workmen to enter; only two brick toilets are known.
· 2500 BCPowder from 61 skeletal samples at the Rakhigarhi cemetery gave one usable ancient genome. Cell published it on September 5, 2019, with no Steppe ancestry.
· 2500 BCCharred millet, wheat and barley from cremation cists at Begash and Tasbas in Kazakhstan date to about 2300 BC; their excavators later doubted what they show.
· 2300 BCAt Kuk Swamp in Papua New Guinea's Wahgi Valley, people grew bananas on mounds by 6950 to 6440 cal BP and dug drainage ditches by about 4000 cal BP.
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