Each bead in this blue string represents a hundred thousand years, from the evolution of the earliest humans to the present. Descriptions are taken from the short version of the Great Story Timeline. Note that some of the beads are identical to those on the earlier strings that represent the same event.
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| 25 hundred thousand years ago (htya) - HUMAN BEINGS (Homo habilis - "handy human") use stone tools. |
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| 14 htya - humans (Homo erectus) domesticate FIRE. |
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| 5 htya - SYMBOLIC LANGUAGE emerges, marking the birth of beliefs and metaphors for comprehending the nature of Reality and our relationship to it in all its manifestations. (This bead is shaped like a pair of lips.) |
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| 1 htya - Humans begin to MIGRATE out of Africa to the other continents. (This bead is from Africa) |
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