Prehistory is the period of human activity between the use of the first stone tools ~3.3 million years ago and the invention of writing systems, the earliest of which appeared ~5300 years ago.Technology that predates recorded history. History is the study of the past using written records; it is also the record itself. Anything prior to the first written accounts of history is prehistoric (meaning "before history"), including earlier technologies. About 2.5 million years before writing was developed, technology began with the earliest hominids who used stone tools, which they may have used to start fires, hunt, cut food, and bury their dead.

Prehistoric (200,000 BC - 4,000 BC)

NameYearDirectionalityPreservation
rock carvingc. 200,000 BCdownpermanent
song, music and dancebetween 100,000 BC and 30,000 BCdown or up or lateraltransient
language and orationbetween 100,000 BC and 30,000 BCdown or up or lateraltransient
body artbetween 100,000 BC and 30,000 BCdown or up or lateraltransient
jewellerybetween 100,000 BC and 30,000 BCdown or up or lateralpermanent
mythologybetween 100,000 BC and 30,000 BCdowntransient
cave painting and visual symbolsbetween 100,000 BC and 30,000 BCdownpermanent
sculpturebetween 100,000 BC and 30,000 BCdownpermanent
potteryc. 14,000 BCdownpermanent
megalithic architecturec. 4000 BCdownpermanent

Ancient (3000 BC - 100 AD)

NameYearDirectionalityPreservation
writingc. 3000 BCdownpermanent
metallurgical art and bronze sculpturec. 3000 BCdownpermanent
alphabetc. 2000 BCdownpermanent
dramac. 500 BCdown or up or lateraltransient
paperc. 100 ADdownpermanent

Renaissance (1450 AD - 1620)

NameYearDirectionalityPreservation
printing press1450 ADdownpermanent
printed booksc. 1500downpermanent
newspapers and magazinesc. 1620downpermanent

Modern (1839 - present)

NameYearDirectionalityPreservation
photograph1839down or up or lateralpermanent
telegraph1844lateralpermanent
telephone1876lateraltransient
phonograph (gramophone)1877downpermanent
movie camera1891down or up or lateralpermanent
film1894downpermanent
radio1906downpermanent
television1936downpermanent
videotape1958down or up or lateralpermanent
cassette tape1964down or up or lateralpermanent
personal computer1973down or up or lateralpermanent
compact disc1983downpermanent
mobile phone1991lateraltransient
internet



Source:
https://www.sutori.com/story/the-evolution-of-traditional-media-to-new-media-ed91
http://greenash.net.au/thoughts/2009/12/media-through-the-ages/
Photo Credit:
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Sleeping_Antelope_Tin_Taghirt.jpg
1992down or up or lateralpermanent





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