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| It is located in England, found early primitive stone tools in 1859 |
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| It is in the Great Rift Valley and it is where Donald Johanson found Australopithicus aferensis |
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| It is in Tanzania in the southern part of the Great Rift Valley and here the Leakeys found two sets of footprints walking upright side by side. Dated about 3.5 MYA probably left by Australopithicines. Found in 1976 |
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| In the Great Rift Valley and here they found primitive stone tools called Oldowan tools. The Leakeys also found Australopithecus boisiei in the gorge |
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| Taung limestone mine in South Africa has uncovered Australopithecus africanus in 1925 by Raymond Dart |
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| More early primitive stone tools were found (basal paleolithic era) |
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| It is on the island of Java, where the Java man was discovered in 1890 by Eugene Dubois. A tooth, a skull, and a thigh bone were found. Dated as far back as 1.7 MYA |
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| It is located in norther Spain, where over 30 human skeletons were dumped into a cave dating 350,000-500,000 years ago |
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It is located in England where they found non-Acheulian hand axes and choppers dated 0.25 MYA
Also where they get the name, Clactonian choppers |
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| A jaw was found dating 0.5 MYA known as the Heidelberg jaw. Also known as Homo Heidelbergensis |
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| Tools and faunal remains were found dating 0.35 MYA. More importantly shell fish and seals remains were found, first documented use of coastal resources |
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