previous age of Technology
History of Technology Timeline 3.3 million years ago: The first tools The history of technology begins even before the beginning of our own species. Sharp flakes of stone used as knives and larger unshaped stones used as hammers and anvils have been uncovered at Lake Turkana in Kenya. The tools were made 3.3 million years ago and thus were likely used by an ancestor such as Australopithecus . 1 million years ago: Fire When humanity first used fire is still not definitively known, but, like the first tools, it was probably invented by an ancestor of Homo sapiens . Evidence of burnt material can be found in caves used by Homo erectus beginning about 1 million (and maybe even 1.5 million) years ago. 20,000 to 15,000 years ago: Neolithic Revolution During the Neolithic Period several key technologies arose together. Humans moved from getti...