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c. 2600000 BCE - c. 250000 BCELower- or Early Palaeolithic industry.
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c. 2600000 BCEFirst known tool use (stone ones) by early hominins, discovered in present-day Ethiopia.
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c. 400000 BCEFrom around this time, the habitual use of fire by humans becomes visible in the archaeological record.
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c. 250000 BCE - c. 30000 BCEMiddle Palaeolithic industry (carried on until c. 30,000 years ago in certain areas, while other populations can already be paired with the Upper Palaeolithic industry from between c. 50,000-40,000 years ago onwards)
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c. 50000 BCE - c. 10000 BCEUpper- or Late Palaeolithic industry (began popping up somewhere between c. 50,000-40,000 years ago)
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c. 12000 BCEEnd of the most recent Ice Age. End of the Pleistocene and beginning of the Holocene epoch.