Timeline

(All dates are approximate)

• Late Paleolithic, from 40th millennium BC
  • Aterian tool-making^[4]
  • Semi-permanent dwellings in Wadi Halfa^[4]
  • Tools made from animal bones, hematite, and other stones^[4]
• Neolithic, from 11th millennium BC
  • c. 10,500 BC: Wild grain harvesting along the Nile, grain-grinding culture creates world's earliest stone sickle blades^[4] roughly at end of Pleistoc