copperbadge:

Wikiwandering through a timeline of prehistoric humanity on my lunch break, I thought I would share the following information:

Humans were wearing clothing 170,000 years ago. We know because of lice.

However, the first hard evidence of personal adornment found anywhere in the world is small perforated seashell beads from Taforalt in Morocco.

It’s entirely possible that 75,000 years ago (so like…we’d been wearing clothes for probably 95,000 years) a volcano lowered the human population to 3,000 or below. 

It is supported by some genetic evidence suggesting that today’s humans are descended from a very small population of between 1,000 and 10,000 breeding pairs that existed about 70,000 years ago.

Fucked our way back to success, we did!

The oldest known uncontested figurative art (not oldest art ever) was a furry. Gender still indeterminate.  

We already had abstract art like 30,000 years before that though.

Never seen the Venus of Hohle Fels? You are missing out.

40,000 years ago: Neanderthals 🙁

Czechs know how to party: with permanent dwellings 25,000 years ago. And their own Venus. 

“Stop feeding the wolves 14,000 years ago. Do you want dogs? This is how you get dogs.“ 

14,600 years ago: carbs. Excellent.

This has been your potentially not even accurate crash course in the first 290,000 or so years of human history. You’re welcome!