You want to know about early man?

The human race originated in Africa, something like half a million years ago. The first tool used by early man is called a hand axe, which is a stone chipped to have one sharpened edge. The cultural evolution of the human race was very slow at first, with the old stone age (also known as the paleolithic period) lasting a long time, eventually giving way to the new stone age (neolithic period) and finally to the earliest cities, about 8,000 years ago.