TOKENS ERA
Era
TOKENS ERA 10,000 BCE-3500 BCE domestication of animals, agriculture, ceramics, fermentation
TOKENS ERA – represents by time 2.6% of human existence.
TOKENS ERA – represents 3% of inventions or 60/2000 inventions.
Inventions from the Data storage Classification
Invention | Description | Year | Inventor | Country |
Solar calendar | engraved on bone | 10,000 BCE | France | |
Clay token system | proto writing system | 7500 BCE | Mesopotamia | |
Map | painted on wall | 6500 BCE | Catalhoyak, Turkey |
Inventions from the Energy radiant Classification
Invention | Description | Year | Inventor | Country |
Kiln | furnace | 6000 BCE | Sumer | Mesopotamia |
Bow drill | for starting fires | 4500 BCE | Indus River | |
Oil lamp | radiating light | 4000 BCE | Egypt |
Inventions from the Machines non-transport Classification
Invention | Description | Year | Inventor | Country |
Ladder | on wall painting | 8000 BCE | Lascaux | France |
Sling | rock hurling weapon | 7000 BCE | Sumer | Mesopotamia |
Drum | musical instrument/signal | 5000 BCE | China | |
Sickle | grain harvest machine | 3600 BCE | China |
Inventions from the Transport Machines Classification
Invention | Description | Year | Inventor | Country |
Reed boat | banded reeds | 10,000 BCE | Sumer | Mesopotamia |
Dugout canoe | burned out trunk | 8000 BCE | Northern Europe | |
Sledge | with lubricant/grease | 7000 BCE | Northern Europe/UK | |
Travois | early dog sled | 7000 BCE | Native American | North America |
Skis | snow transport | 6300 BCE | Russia | |
Square cloth sail | sailboat | 6000 BCE | Sumer | Mesopotamia |
Rowing oars | carved wood | 5000 BCE | China |
Inventions from the Materials, metals Classification
Invention | Description | Year | Inventor | Country |
Elemental copper artifacts | pre-smelting metallurgy | 8700 BCE | Northern Iraq | |
Metal chisel | copper | 7500 BCE | Middle East | |
Tin smelting | furnace required | 6500 BCE | Turkey | |
Copper smelting | more advanced furnace | 5000 BCE | Serbia | |
Lost wax casting | metal replaces melted wax | 4000 BCE | Israel, Indus River | |
Forging | advanced furnace | 4000 BCE | Sumer, Mesopotamia | |
Metal rivet | metallurgy | 4000 BCE | Sumer, Mesopotamia (90) |
Inventions from the Materials, non-Metals Classification
Invention | Description | Year | Inventor | Country |
Advanced pottery | vessels | 10,000 BCE | Japan | |
Mud bricks | sun-dried | 9000 BCE | Israel | |
Mortar | between bricks | 9000 BCE | Jerico, Israel | |
Stone monument | carved stone | 9000 BCE | Gobokli, Turkey | |
Concrete | cement when mixed with aggregate | 6500 BCE | Nabatacea (Middle East), (47 ) | |
Carpentry | wood shaping/construction | 5000 BCE | Egypt (41) | |
Fired bricks | kiln dried/fired | 4400 BCE | China | |
Pottery wheel | allows round containers | 3800 BCE | Sumer Mesopotamia |
Inventions from the Domestic Biotech Classification
Invention | Description | Year | Inventor | Country |
Eight paleolithic founding crops domestication | first domesticated plants: eikorn wheat, emmer wheat, peas, chick peas, flax, rye, hulled barley, bitter vetch | 10,000 BCE | Mesopotamia (4) | |
Fermentation of beer and wine | beer first fermented | 10,000 BCE | Mesopotamia (91) | |
Domestication of herding animals | sheep, goats, pigs, cattle | 10,000 BCE | Mesopotamia (5) | |
Gourds | vessels for containment | 10,0000 BCE | Peru | |
Grain grinding | milling | 9000 BCE | Syria | |
Granary | grain storage | 9500 BCE | Israel | |
Domestication of pigs | pork #1 meat in world | 8500 BCE | Europe, Asia | |
Fort | walled village | 7000 BCE | Indus River | |
Sugar cane domestication | sweetener | 7000 BCE | New Guinea | |
Tanned leather | clothing, etc | 7000 BCE | Indus River | |
Domesticated bananas | most common fruit | 6500 BCE | New Guinea | |
Wool garments/rugs | woven wool | 6000 BCE | Mesopotamia | |
Yogurt | bacteria cultures | 5000 BCE | Mesopotamia | |
Cheese | preserved milk product | 5000 BCE | Poland | |
Irrigation | first hydraulic engineering | 5000 BCE | Mesopotamia | |
Chickens domesticated | least expensive meat | 5200 BCE | China | |
Plow, ard scratch plow | domesticated oxen | 5000 BCE | Mesopotamia (10) | |
Leavened bread | yeast | 4000 BCE | Egypt | |
Canal | hydraulic engineering | 4000 BCE | Syria | |
Apple domestication | common fruit | 4000 BCE | Kazakhstan |
Inventions from the Medical Biotech Classification
Invention | Description | Year | Inventor | Country |
Dental drill | dentistry | 7000 BCE | Indus River | |
Hallucinogenic mushrooms | ceremony | 7000 BCE | Subsaharan Africa | |
Toothpaste | oral hygiene | 5000 BCE | Egypt | |
Opium domestication | powerful pain relief | 5000 BCE | Europe (67) |