Old Stone AgeTechnology First seagoing watercraft c. 65,000 years agoMajor Humans must have built rafts or boats to cross open water to Australia, even though none survive. ▲ MattersSaveShareTrace roots Longest chain: The Big Bang → First stars ignite → Supernovae seed heavy elements → The Sun forms → Earth forms → First oceans → First life → Photosynthesis evolves → Great Oxidation Event → Complex cells (eukaryotes) → Multicellular life → First animals → Cambrian Explosion → First vertebrates → Jawed fish → Fish walk onto land → The amniotic egg → The Great Dying → Dinosaurs appear → Asteroid ends the dinosaurs → Early primates → Apes split from monkeys → Human line splits from chimpanzees → Walking upright → First stone tools → Genus Homo appears → Homo erectus → Control of fire → Habitual fire and cooking → Homo sapiens appears → First seagoing watercraft Community notesLoading notes… Learn more ranked by votesDocumentpure.hud.ac.ukAustralasian colonization research: origins of seafaring to Sahul (University of Huddersfield) ↗Editor's pickBookLincoln PaineThe Sea and Civilization ↗Editor's pickBookScott CaneFirst Footprints ↗Editor's pickVideoSearch on YouTubefirst humans to cross the sea ↗Editor's pick