ORAL ERA

Era

ORAL ERA – 250,000 BCE -10,000 BCE defined by oral language, control of fire, hunter-gatherer lifestyle.

ORAL ERA – represents by time 96% of human existence.

ORAL ERA – by inventions represents 3% or 68/2000 inventions.

Invention	Description	Year	Inventor	Country
Control of Fire		250,000 BCE		Africa (1)
35 PREHISTORIC USES OF FIRE
1) Heat
2) Light
3) Nutrition from cooking
4) Protection/shelter
5) Sterilize water
6) Charcoal to restart fire
7) Clearing land for crops
8) Signaling
9) Burning waste
10) Cremation
11) Repel insects
12) Cauterize wounds
13) Hardening wood/stone
14) Drying objects, clothes/food
15) Food preservation, smoking meat
16) Waterproofing with smoke
17) Migration in cold climates
18) Drive animals
19) Smoke out bees for honey
20) Drive out holed animals
21) Bending wood (Bow)
22) Burn out canoes
23) Black pigment, charcoal
24) Char wood to decrease rot
25) Remove seed chaff
26) Smoke tobacco
27) Scar/tatoos
28) Burning hair off hides
29) Warfare
30) Religious ceremonies
31) Detoxify botulism
32) Glue from birch bark
33) Ink from charcoal and glue
34) Toothpaste
35) Soap

Invention	Description	Year	Inventor	Country
Stone tipped spears	flint	250,000 BCE		Africa
Obsidian flake tools	glasslike stone sharpened	250,000 BCE		Africa
Axe/hammer	wedge of stone with lever handle, hafted	200,000 BCE		Africa
Harpoon	carved bone	90,000 BCE		Congo, Africa
Bow and arrow	flint arrow heads	70,000 BCE		South Africa (83)
Boomerang	carved and bent wood	50,000 BCE		Australia
Fish hook	carved bone	40,000 BCE		Russia
Atlatl	flexible throwing dart	35,000 BCE		Africa
Bull roarer	sound generator	18,000, BCE		Ukraine
Sickle	harvesting tool	15,000 BCE		Israel

Invention	Description	Year	Inventor	Country
Bed	sleeping platform	250,000 BCE		South Africa
Wood huts	housing	250,000 BCE		Africa
Clothes	leather	170,000 BCE		Africa
Cloth weaving	fiber weaving	36,000 BCE		Czechoslovakia, Moravia, Turkey (42)
Mortar and pestle	flour making	36,000 BCE		Southwest Asia
Dog domestication	from grey wolf	32,000 BCE		Belgium, several Eurasia sites
Blanket		32,000 BCE		Europe
Braided rope	more advanced fiber technology	15,000 BCE		Lascaux, France
Bread	baking	12,000 BCE		Jordan
Basket weaving	container	12,000 BCE		Egypt