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In a strict sense, the {{Romanian|MM|2  000}} {{E}} thousand-year-old {{avjc}} covers the years 2  000  000 with 1  999  001 included/understood.

However, no date not being precise on this scale, this article treats a half-million years until in 1  500  001 included/understood.

Events

2.000.000

• Dating of the oldest remainders of Homo ergaster .

Homo ergaster is a hunter-gatherer who moves according to the migrations of his preys to traverse long distances in East Africa and South. It evolves to Homo erectus , present in China there are more than one million and half of years, then in North Africa and Europe seven hundred and thousand years ago.

1.800.000

Studies of Paléopathologie on the remainders of a Homo habilis of this time showed that he suffered from Arthrose and of Rhumatisme S.

1.750.000

• Africa  : first indices of installation of shelter (discussed) in the Throats of Olduvai in Tanzania.
• Asia  : Remainders of Homo erectus with Yuanmou, in Western China. Charcoal tools and remains .

1.600.000

• Europe: beginning of the alpine Glaciation of Donau.
• Dmanisi (Georgia, the Caucasus): presence of Homo georgicus (or Homo erectus ).
• Koobi Drilled (Kenya): remainders fossil of a form of hominidé to large brain and small teeth, gone back to 1,6 to 1,5 million years, and allotted to the species Homo erectus .

Inventions, Discoveries, Introductions

• Indices (disputed) of use of the Fire to Swartkrans, in South Africa (2 million years) and with Chesowanja with the Kenya (1,5 million years).

• Double-side S: stone tools cut in the almond shape, often symmetrical (1,6 million years).

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