Hour 1 | 3,300,000 - 4,000 BCE

In this first episode, we cover the origin story of humanity: how the first hominin groups evolved in Africa and spread across the planet creating art, instruments and stone tools. Eventually these many diverse hominin groups went extinct leaving our species, Homo sapiens, alone on the earth. We discuss the fascinating and complicated neolithic age when many groups began to rely more on cultivated foods. Some people began to work with metal taking parts of the world into the copper age. During this time we find humans living in permanent settlements, some lasting over a thousand years, well before the rise of the first commonly acknowledged "cities." These early human groups invented such essentials as cheese, tea, chocolate, alcohol and their lives and decisions still affect ours every day.

• Welcome to WH24
• First Use of Stone Tools
• Early Human Groups
• Fire
• Out of Africa 1 & 2
• Neanderthals
• Oldest Instruments
• Last Humans on Earth
• Ice Ages & Water Levels
• Bering Strait Land Bridge
• Agriculture
• Çatalhöyük
• Copper Metallurgy
• The Problems with “Civilization”

Sources, pictures, links and more at our website WorldHistory24.com

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