Inventions in the Paleolithic Era.

Lets start with some inventions of the Paleolithic Era or the "old stone age" (In Greek, palaios
means old and lithos means stone), extending from 2.5 to 2.6 million years to
10,000 BC. Actually noone can name the inventors of those age, I think no one can.

Year	Invention	Remarks
2.4 Ma*	Stone Tools	in East Africa
1.65 Ma	Stone Tools	in Kenya
1.4 Ma	Knife	Ethiopia
1 Ma	Controlled fire	in East Africa
1 Ma	Sterilization of food and water (cooking)	in East Africa
500 ka	Shelter construction
100-500 ka	Clothing
400 ka	Pigments	in Zambia
400 ka	Spears	in Germany
200 ka	Burial	in Africa
100 ka	Lithic blades	in Africa and the Near East
60 ka	Ships	probably used by settlers of New Guinea
50 ka	Flute	in Slovenia
50 ka	Bow	in Tunisia
43 ka	Mining	in Swaziland and Hungary
37 ka	Tally sticks	in Swaziland
30 ka	Sewing needles
26 ka	Ceramics	in Moravia
25 ka	Atlatl	in Northwest Africa
17 ka	twisted Rope	(probably much earlier)
15 ka	Boomerang	in Australia
12 ka	Basket weaving

* Ma,(megaannum) is a unit of time equal to one million (10^6) years
** ka, (kiloannum) is a unit of time equal to one thousand years.