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Other than tools, what do you think was the most significant thing that a homo sapien sapien invented before 5000BC?
So no stuff invented by Neanderthals unless it was reinvented by a human.
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Why, the invention of BEER, of course! Check out my history lesson on the story of beer. We wouldn't have many important things today without it, like straws, agriculture, monasteries and more. Even Plato said, "He was a wise man who invented beer." 
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Some people might disagree with this selection, but actually this was extremely important because water was so dangerous to drink.
My own answer would have been the canoe. While I have no evidence of this, I suspect that the canoe was invented almost 50,000 years ago on the uppper Nile river. Before you can have a civilization, you must have towns, and before you have towns, you must have villages. I suspect that the invention of the floating log as a device to easily move items, such as a dead game animal, along the river, was the key to the formation of small towns and early commerce.
My own answer would have been the canoe. While I have no evidence of this, I suspect that the canoe was invented almost 50,000 years ago on the uppper Nile river. Before you can have a civilization, you must have towns, and before you have towns, you must have villages. I suspect that the invention of the floating log as a device to easily move items, such as a dead game animal, along the river, was the key to the formation of small towns and early commerce.
mostly what the homosapiens did was DISCOVER more than invent, but i would have to say clothes would be up there with tools. Can't say grunts without a fashion statement, lol.
Everything we invent are tools in some way. Even the "invented" use of the fire and language are tools of some sorts.
According to http://www.scaruffi.com/know/logos5.html
Inventions by Homo Sapiens:
Art (28,000 BC, Austria)
Lamp (17,000 BC, France)
Farming (14,000 BC, Mesopotamia)
Domesticated animals (12,000 BC)
Boat (8,000 BC, Holland/ Norway, but earlier in Oceania)
Earliest Inventions
Weapons (bow, sling, dagger, mace) (8,000 BC)
Pottery (7,900 BC, China)
Weaving (6,500 BC, Palestine)
Musical instruments (5,000 BC, Sumeria)
There's also this info, but it makes no distinction as to which type of early man is responsible for it:
http://i43.tinypic.com/ma9egm.jpg
Inventions by Homo Sapiens:
Art (28,000 BC, Austria)
Lamp (17,000 BC, France)
Farming (14,000 BC, Mesopotamia)
Domesticated animals (12,000 BC)
Boat (8,000 BC, Holland/ Norway, but earlier in Oceania)
Earliest Inventions
Weapons (bow, sling, dagger, mace) (8,000 BC)
Pottery (7,900 BC, China)
Weaving (6,500 BC, Palestine)
Musical instruments (5,000 BC, Sumeria)
There's also this info, but it makes no distinction as to which type of early man is responsible for it:
source(s):
http://www.scaruffi.com/know/logos5.html
http://www.krysstal.com/display_inventions.php?years=10%2C000+BC+to+4%2C000...
http://www.scaruffi.com/know/logos5.html
http://www.krysstal.com/display_inventions.php?years=10%2C000+BC+to+4%2C000...
If you consider farming to be an invention, it'd beat everything else hands down. in terms of its impact on human history.
War. I know it is both an invention and a tool. Like one of the earlier answerers, I belive they are one in the same. War may have been the most signifigant invention, one the earliest forms of collective gouup expression.
I would say 'Religion' was the most significant thing that a homo sapien invented before 5000 B.C.
An 'invention' that is still the most powerful force for good or evil on the planet.
An 'invention' that is still the most powerful force for good or evil on the planet.
voted helpful: buddawiggi
8500 BC Wheat, Pea, Olive Cultivation - Mesopotamia
7500 BC Rice and Millet Cultivation - China
7000 BC Sesame, Barley Cultivation - Indus Valley
7500 BC Rice and Millet Cultivation - China
7000 BC Sesame, Barley Cultivation - Indus Valley
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