<cite>via [[Against the Grain by James C. Scott]]</cite> - 200,000 BCE: Appearance of anatomically modern human - 105,000 BP: Earliest evidence that wild grains were collected and eaten. - 60,000 BCE: *Homo sapiens* disperse from Africa - 40,000 BP: Fire used by homanoids as a tool of landscaping and construction. - 12,000 BP: Permanent settlement, agriculture & pastoralism. Approximately 2-4 million humans on Earth. - 9,500 BCE [[domestication timeline]] begins. - 5,000 BCE earliest strong evidence of agrarian villages relying on planted crops & livestock - 3200 BCE: Proto-Cuneiform for record-keeping - 3100 BCE: Walled, territorial statelets - 2600 BCE: Cuneiform used to represent speech - 6,000 BP: First Mesopotamian states - - - [Timeline of the human condition](https://web.archive.org/web/20211226144738/https://www.southampton.ac.uk/~cpd/history.html) is _excellent_ and I should probably import it into my notes somehow. #xref