Timeline: Prehistory
| Years: c. 6 million years ago - 3100 BCE | Subject: History, Ancient history (non-classical to 500 CE) |
| Publisher: HistoryWorld | Online Publication Date: 2012 |
| Current online version: 2012 | eISBN: 9780191735349 |
| Year | Event |
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| c. 6 million years ago | Go to Paranthropus in A Dictionary of Zoology (3 ed.) See this event in other timelines: |
| c. 4.5 million years ago | Go to hominid in A Dictionary of Biology (6 ed.) See this event in other timelines: |
| c. 4.4 million years ago | Go to Ardi in New Oxford American Dictionary (3 ed.) See this event in other timelines: |
| c. 3.6 million years old | Go to Australopithecus in The Concise Oxford Dictionary of Archaeology (2 ed.) See this event in other timelines: |
| c. 3.2 million years ago | Go to Australopithecine in A Dictionary of Genetics (7 ed.) See this event in other timelines: |
| c. 2.6 million to 14,000 years ago | Go to Palaeolithic in The Oxford Dictionary of Phrase and Fable (2 ed.) See this event in other timelines: |
| c. 2.6 to 1.2 million years ago | Go to Neanderthal man in A Dictionary of Biology (6 ed.) See this event in other timelines: Go to Paranthropus in A Dictionary of Zoology (3 ed.) See this event in other timelines: |
| c. 2.5 million years ago | Go to hominid in A Dictionary of Biology (6 ed.) See this event in other timelines: |
| c. 2.2 million years ago | Go to Homo in A Dictionary of Genetics (7 ed.) See this event in other timelines: |
| c. 2.2 to 1.4 million years ago | Go to Homo habilis in World Encyclopedia (1 ed.) See this event in other timelines: |
| c. 1.85 million years ago | Go to Homo habilis in World Encyclopedia (1 ed.) See this event in other timelines: |
| c. 1.8 million years ago | Go to Homo erectus in World Encyclopedia (1 ed.) See this event in other timelines: |
| c. 1.7 million years ago | Go to Homo erectus in The Concise Oxford Dictionary of Archaeology (2 ed.) See this event in other timelines: |
| 1.6 million years ago | Go to Homo erectus in The Concise Oxford Dictionary of Archaeology (2 ed.) See this event in other timelines: |
| c. 1 million years ago | |
| c. 800,000 years ago | Go to Stone Technology in The Oxford Companion to Archaeology (1 ed.) See this event in other timelines: |
| c. 500,000 years ago | Go to Zhoukoudian in A Dictionary of World History (2 ed.) See this event in other timelines: Go to Zhoukoudian, China in The Concise Oxford Dictionary of Archaeology (2 ed.) See this event in other timelines: |
| c. 250,000 years ago | |
| c. 230,000 years ago | Go to Homo sapiens in The Concise Oxford Dictionary of Archaeology (2 ed.) See this event in other timelines: |
| c. 150,000 years ago | Go to Homo sapiens in The Concise Oxford Dictionary of Archaeology (2 ed.) See this event in other timelines: |
| c. 130,000 years ago | Go to Neanderthal man in A Dictionary of Biology (6 ed.) See this event in other timelines: |
| c. 120,000 to 35,000 years ago | Go to Neanderthal man in A Dictionary of Biology (6 ed.) See this event in other timelines: |
| c. 90,000 years ago | Go to Homo sapiens in The Concise Oxford Dictionary of Archaeology (2 ed.) See this event in other timelines: |
| 77,000 years ago | Go to Speech in Magic Universe: A Grand Tour of Modern Science (1 ed.) See this event in other timelines: |
| c. 60,000 years ago | Go to Pacific Islands in The Oxford Companion to Archaeology (1 ed.) See this event in other timelines: |
| c. 50,000 to 30,000 years ago | Go to Neanderthal man in A Dictionary of Biology (6 ed.) See this event in other timelines: |
| c. 45,000 years ago | Go to Neanderthal man in A Dictionary of Biology (6 ed.) See this event in other timelines: |
| c. 35,000 years ago | Go to hunter‐gatherers in The Concise Oxford Dictionary of Archaeology (2 ed.) See this event in other timelines: Go to Venus figurine in The Concise Oxford Dictionary of Archaeology (2 ed.) See this event in other timelines: Go to Neanderthal man in A Dictionary of Biology (6 ed.) See this event in other timelines: |
| c. 35,000 to 14,000 years ago | Go to Palaeolithic in The Oxford Dictionary of Phrase and Fable (2 ed.) See this event in other timelines: |
| c. 31,000 years ago | Go to cave art in The Concise Oxford Dictionary of Archaeology (2 ed.) See this event in other timelines: |
| c. 30,000 years ago | Go to Bering land bridge in The Concise Oxford Dictionary of Archaeology (2 ed.) See this event in other timelines: |
| c. 29,000 years ago | In the Cosquer cave near Marseilles, with its entrance now far below sea level, a hand print is made Go to marine and underwater archaeology in The Oxford Companion to Ships and the Sea (2 ed.) See this event in other timelines: |
| c. 27,000 years ago | Go to unenclosed settlement in The Concise Oxford Dictionary of Archaeology (2 ed.) See this event in other timelines: |
| c. 25,000 years ago | Go to ‘Venus of Willendorf’ in The Oxford Dictionary of Art (3 ed.) See this event in other timelines: |
| c. 24,000 years ago | Go to unenclosed settlement in The Concise Oxford Dictionary of Archaeology (2 ed.) See this event in other timelines: |
| c. 23,000 years ago | |
| c. 18,000 years ago | |
| c. 16,000 years ago | |
| c. 15,000 years ago | Go to Palaeo‐Indian in The Concise Oxford Dictionary of Archaeology (2 ed.) See this event in other timelines: Go to bow in The Concise Oxford Dictionary of Archaeology (2 ed.) See this event in other timelines: Go to Magdalenian in The Concise Oxford Dictionary of Archaeology (2 ed.) See this event in other timelines: Go to Altamira in The Oxford Dictionary of Art (3 ed.) See this event in other timelines: Go to Plano cultures in The Concise Oxford Dictionary of Archaeology (2 ed.) See this event in other timelines: |
| 15,000 to 10,000 years ago | Go to Guitarrero Cave, Peru in The Concise Oxford Dictionary of Archaeology (2 ed.) See this event in other timelines: |
| c. 14,000 to 10,000 years ago | Go to Mesolithic in The Concise Oxford Dictionary of Archaeology (2 ed.) See this event in other timelines: |
| c. 12,000 years ago | Go to Mesolithic in The Concise Oxford Dictionary of Archaeology (2 ed.) See this event in other timelines: |
| c. 8000 BCE | Go to Neolithic in The Concise Oxford Dictionary of Archaeology (2 ed.) See this event in other timelines: Go to Neolithic in The Concise Oxford Dictionary of Archaeology (2 ed.) See this event in other timelines: Go to Ali Kosh, Iran in The Concise Oxford Dictionary of Archaeology (2 ed.) See this event in other timelines: Go to wheat in The Concise Oxford Dictionary of Archaeology (2 ed.) Go to Ali Kosh, Iran in The Concise Oxford Dictionary of Archaeology (2 ed.) See this event in other timelines: Go to Jarmo, Iraq in The Concise Oxford Dictionary of Archaeology (2 ed.) See this event in other timelines: Go to Jericho in A Dictionary of World History (2 ed.) See this event in other timelines: Go to mud brick in The Concise Oxford Dictionary of Archaeology (2 ed.) See this event in other timelines: Go to spindle whorl in The Concise Oxford Dictionary of Archaeology (2 ed.) See this event in other timelines: Go to Neolithic in The Concise Oxford Dictionary of Archaeology (2 ed.) See this event in other timelines: Go to Jericho in A Dictionary of World History (2 ed.) See this event in other timelines: Go to Jomon in The Concise Oxford Dictionary of Archaeology (2 ed.) See this event in other timelines: Go to Maritime Archaic in The Concise Oxford Dictionary of Archaeology (2 ed.) See this event in other timelines: Go to Bering land bridge in The Concise Oxford Dictionary of Archaeology (2 ed.) See this event in other timelines: Go to Ice Ages in World Encyclopedia (1 ed.) |
| c. From 8000 BCE | Go to Neolithic in The Concise Oxford Dictionary of Archaeology (2 ed.) See this event in other timelines: Go to Neolithic in The Concise Oxford Dictionary of Archaeology (2 ed.) |
| c. 7000 BCE | Go to copper in The Concise Oxford Dictionary of Archaeology (2 ed.) See this event in other timelines: Go to Ali Kosh, Iran in The Concise Oxford Dictionary of Archaeology (2 ed.) See this event in other timelines: |
| c. 6500 BCE | Go to Neolithic in A Dictionary of World History (2 ed.) See this event in other timelines: Go to Neolithic in A Dictionary of World History (2 ed.) See this event in other timelines: Go to Khirokitia in The Grove Encyclopedia of Classical Art and Architecture (1 ed.) See this event in other timelines: |
| c. 5800 BCE | |
| 5000 BCE | Go to Ocean Bay Tradition in The Concise Oxford Dictionary of Archaeology (2 ed.) See this event in other timelines: Go to Tehuacán Valley, Mexico in The Concise Oxford Dictionary of Archaeology (2 ed.) See this event in other timelines: Go to Neolithic in A Dictionary of World History (2 ed.) See this event in other timelines: |
| c. 4400 BCE | Go to weaving in World Encyclopedia (1 ed.) See this event in other timelines: |
| c. 4000 BCE | Go to passage grave in The Concise Oxford Dictionary of Archaeology (2 ed.) See this event in other timelines: Go to Land Transportation in The Oxford Companion to Archaeology (1 ed.) See this event in other timelines: Go to Land Transportation in The Oxford Companion to Archaeology (1 ed.) See this event in other timelines: Go to Land Transportation in The Oxford Companion to Archaeology (1 ed.) See this event in other timelines: Go to Beer and Brewing in The Oxford Companion to Archaeology (1 ed.) See this event in other timelines: Go to Pacific Islands in The Oxford Companion to Archaeology (1 ed.) See this event in other timelines: |
| c. 3800 BCE | Go to copper in The Concise Oxford Dictionary of Archaeology (2 ed.) See this event in other timelines: |
| c. 3500 BCE | |
| c. 3250 BCE | Go to Similaun Man in The Oxford Companion to Archaeology (1 ed.) See this event in other timelines: |
| c. 3100 BCE | Go to Sumer in The Oxford Dictionary of Phrase and Fable (2 ed.) See this event in other timelines: Go to Egypt, ancient in World Encyclopedia (1 ed.) See this event in other timelines: Go to Sumer in The Oxford Dictionary of Phrase and Fable (2 ed.) See this event in other timelines: Go to writing in A Dictionary of World History (2 ed.) See this event in other timelines: Go to writing in A Dictionary of World History (2 ed.) See this event in other timelines: |
