 Text search
 Related images
 HistoryWorld
 Link
 Map
Click the icons to visit linked content. Hover to see the search terms. |
|  |
| | | | | | | |
|
| c. 120,000 to 35,000 years ago |
| | | The Middle Palaeolithic era covers the period when Neanderthals and modern humans coexist in Europe and Asia | |
| |
|
| c. 90,000 years ago |
| | | Fossilized bones found in the caves of Skhul and Qafzeh, in modern Israel, are of anatomically modern humans | |
| |
|
| 77,000 years ago |
| | | In the Blombos cave in South Africa stones are engraved with patterns of lines, either decorative or practical (as a form of tally) | |
| |
|
| c. 60,000 years ago |
| | | The first human inhabitants of Australia make the crossing from southeast Asia | |
| |
|
| c. 50,000 to 30,000 years ago |
| | | Neanderthals decline in numbers, first in Asia and then in Europe | |
| |
|
| c. 45,000 years ago |
| | | Neanderthals carve a flute from the leg bone of a young bear, in the region that is now Slovenia | |
| |
|
| c. 35,000 years ago |
| | | Palaeolithic hunter-gatherers use mammoth tusks and bones to support hide-covered tents at Dolni Vestonice (in the Czech Republic) | |
| |
|
| c. 35,000 years ago |
| | | The earliest known Venus figurine, with very much emphasized sexual features, is carved near the Hohle Fels cave in Germany from the tusk of a woolly mammoth | |
| |
|
| c. 35,000 years ago |
| | | The Neanderthals vanish quite suddenly from the fossil record, leaving modern humans as the only surviving members of our species | |
| |
|
| c. 35,000 to 14,000 years ago |
| | | The Upper Palaeolithic era is the final section of the Old Stone Age, lasting until the Neolithic Era | |
| |
|
| | | | | |
| |