History Of Mankind Timeline. This timeline of prehistory covers the time from the first appearance of homo sapiens in africa 315,000 years ago to the invention of writing, over 5,000 years ago, with the earliest records going back to 3,200 bc.prehistory covers the time from the middle paleolithic (old stone age) to the very beginnings of ancient history. Bow and arrows with stone points (arrowheads) are used.
They used basic stone and bone tools. The beginning of the homo sapiens lineage The timeline of history corroborates coherent completeness.