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Dates
are approximate.
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5,000,000
yrs ago
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Hominids
separated from other primates
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2,000,000
yrs ago
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Homo Habilus
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1,750,000
yrs ago
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Initial
hominid exodus from Africa
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1,500,000
yrs ago
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Homo
Erectus
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1,000,000
yrs ago
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Early
hominids in Spain
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500,000
yrs ago
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Common
ancestor of Homo sapiens sapiens and Homo neanderthalensis
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400,000
yrs ago
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Early
hominids in China
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150,000
yrs ago
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Mitochondrial
Eve in Africa
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100,000
yrs ago
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Some
Homo sapiens sapiens left Africa
into Middle
East
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71,000
yrs ago
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Eruption
of Toba, Sumatran Volcano, and the ensuing millennium which killed almost
all Homo Sapiens Sapiens (estimate of 10,000
left)
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70,000
yrs ago
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Some
Homo sapiens sapiens left Africa
and Middle
East
for southern coastal Eurasia
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60,000
yrs ago
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Y-chromosome
Adam
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50,000
yrs ago
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Eurasians
separated out from Africans, followed coast lines and arrived in Australia
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40,000
yrs ago
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Europeans
separated out from Eurasians
|
|
40,000
yrs
ago
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Modern
humans reached southern Siberia
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|
35,000
yrs ago
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Modern
humans reached Europe
Earliest paleolithic cave art in FumaneCave
near Verona, Italy
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30,000
yrs ago
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First
major wave of migration into India
from the Middle
East
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25,000
yrs
ago
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Paleolithic
humans migrated south to southern France
and northern Spain
because of ice-age cold
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20,000
yrs ago
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Modern
humans reached the Asian Arctic
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15,000
yrs ago
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Northeast
Asians migrated into North
America
through the BeringStraits,
then dry
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12,000-10,000
yrs ago
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Europe
repopulated after Last Glacial Maximum
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10,000
yrs ago
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Agriculture
began in Middle
East
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8,500
yrs
ago
|
Earliest
known permanent settlement at Jericho
in the Middle
East
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8,200
yrs
ago
|
Huge
ice dam broke in northeast North
America,
which caused the filling of the English
channel
and much flooding and much colder temperatures for about 300-500 years
in western Europe. This caused Europeans to separate into isolated groups.
Articles about this:
http://www.clas.ufl.edu/users/pciesiel/gly3150/glaciation.html
The
Europeans left in western Europe are called paleolithic.
The eastern Europeans are called neolithic;
agriculture developed in this group and they later joined the paleolithic
group in western Europe. |
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7,600
yrs
ago
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Black
Sea
flooded with salt water by the breaching of a narrow stip
of land by the rising Mediterranean
Sea
to create the Strait
of Bosporus
|
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5500
yrs
ago
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Wheel
invented, in Mesopotamia?
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4000
yrs
ago
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Homo
sapiens migrated to PolynesianIslands
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