
History of Kazakhstan
Kazakhstan's first inhabitants appeared 1 million to 800,000 years ago when Sinanthropus and Pithecanthropus (archaic humans) settled around Lake Balkhash, the Caspian Sea, and the Karatau Mountains near the UzbekKyrgyz border. Due to the Pleistocene climate (aka Ice Age), these regions were cooler and received higher rainfall than today which enabled these Early Stone Age peoples to .