Stone Age Paleolithic Lower Paleolithic – (Homo, Stone tools, spread of Homo Erectus to Eurasia, control of fire, and later spears, pigments, constructed shelter) Middle Paleolithic – (Recent African origin of modern humans, Homo sapiens, Homo neanderthalensis; clothing, beads, burial, bedding, bone tools) Upper Paleolithic – (behavioral modernity, atlatl, domestication of dogs) Mesolithic – (microliths, bow, canoes) Neolithic – (domestication, nomadic pastoralism, agriculture, proto-cities) Stone Age Levant Tell Halaf Ubaid period Neolithic Europe – (Linear Pottery, Vinča culture) Neolithic China Neolithic South Asia Mehrgarh Paleo-Indians (Americas) Chalcolithic (Copper Age) – (Yamna culture, Corded Ware) Uruk period Europe – (Metallurgy in pre-Columbian Mesoamerica)