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| Period & Climate
| Western Europe
| Central Europe
and Eastern Europe
| North Africa,
West Africa and Sahara
| Central Africa,
South and East Africa
| Middle East
| South Asia, and
Central Asia
| East Asia and South-East Asia
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1000 Before Present (BP)
| (Middle Ages)
| (Middle Ages)
| (Caliphate)
| (Sahelian kingdoms) Mapungubwe
| (Caliphate)
| (Middle Kingdoms)
| (Song Dynasty)
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2000 BP
| Iron Age
| Iron Age
| (Ancient North Africa)
| Bantu expansion
| (Classical Antiquity)
| (Mauryan Empire)
| (Zhou Dynasty)
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3000 BP
| Bronze Age
| Bronze Age
| Copper Age in Niger
| Bantu expansion
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Late Bronze Age
Early Iron Age
| development of
Indian Iron Age
| Chinese Bronze Age
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4000 BP
| Bell beaker
Chalcolithic
| corded ceramic
domestication of the horse
| Neolithic of Tichit
Tenerean
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| Middle Bronze Age (Sumer)
| Indus Valley civilisation
writing
| Chinese Neolithic
of Longshan
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5000 BP
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enclosed villages
first megaliths
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Chalcolithic
of Central Europe
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| Beginning of the Hunter-gatherer art
of South Africa
| Early Bronze Age
| Regionalization Era
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6000 BP
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Lower Neolithic
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Danubian Neolithic
| Mediterranean
and Egyptian Neolithic
| Beginning of Neolithic in East Africa
| Uruk period
Chalcolithic
(copper metallurgy)
| Mehrgarh
| Neolithic
of Yang-Shao
rice-growing (?)
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7000 BP
| Cardial and Linear Pottery
(agriculture, stock-rearing, Pottery)
Tardenoisian
cultures
| Starčevo and Vinča culture
agriculture, stock-rearing (pigs, bovine, sheep)
| Neolithic of the Sahara/Sahel
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| Ubaid period
ceramic Cyprus
| Mehrgarh
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8000 BP
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Sauveterrian cultures
(gathering of legumes)
| Neolithic in Greece
and the Eastern Mediterranean
Sesklo and Choirokoitia
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| Neolithic with ceramic
Ubaid period
| Mehrgarh
| Neolithic of northern China
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9000 BP
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Backed point
culture
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| Wiltonian
| Pre-ceramic B
Pre-ceramic A
Neolithic in Turkey
(wheat, barley)
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| hunter gatherers
of Jōmon (ancient Japan)
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10,000 BP
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Azilian
and Asiloid cultures
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| Capsian
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| Goats domestication Zagros in Iran
First towns Near East at Aşıklı Höyük and Jericho
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| Hoabinhian of Southeast Asia
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11,000 BP
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| Mezine
Kostienki
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Magosian
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Natufian
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Kandivili
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12,000 BP Holocene began
glacial ended (12,000 BP)
glacial at its coldest (20,000 BP)
| Magdalenian
Solutrean
Epigravettian
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Epigravettian
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Ibero-Maurisian
Mushabian
Sebilian
| Lupemban culture
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Kebarian
Athlitian
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| pre-Jōmon ceramic (Japan)
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20,000 BP
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Gravettian
Aurignacian (art)
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Pavlovian
Aurignacian (art)
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Antelian
Aurignacian (art)
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| Sơn Vi culture (northern Vietnam)
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| 30,000 BP
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Châtelperronian
Homo neanderthalensis, Homo sapiens
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Szeletian
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Aterian
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Stillbay
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Balangoda
Angara culture
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Sen-Doki
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40,000 BP
| Homo neanderthalensis, Homo sapiens
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| Emirian
Jabroudian
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50,000 BP
| Mousterian
(earliest graves)
Homo neanderthalensis
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Mousterian
Homo neanderthalensis
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Mousterian
Homo neanderthalensis
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Fauresmithian
Homo sapiens
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Mousterian
Homo neanderthalensis
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Soanian
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Ngandong
culture
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80,000 BP
latest glacial began (95,000 BP)
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Homo neanderthalensis
Micoquien
| Homo neanderthalensis
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Homo neanderthalensis
Micoquien
| Mousteroid
Homo sapiens
| Homo neanderthalensis
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Ordos
culture
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100,000 BP
glacial ended (130,000 BP)
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Upper Acheulean
Homo neanderthalensis
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Upper Acheulean
Homo neanderthalensis
| Homo neanderthalensis
| Sangoan
Homo sapiens
| Homo neanderthalensis
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Acheulean
Soanian
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Fen Culture
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200,000 BP
glacial began (350,000 BP)
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Homo neanderthalensis
Tayacian
| Homo neanderthalensis
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Homo neanderthalensis
Acheulean
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Homo sapiens
Acheulean
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Homo neanderthalensis
Acheulean
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300,000 BP
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middle Acheulean
Homo neanderthalensis
Clactonian
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middle Acheulean
Homo neanderthalensis
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Pre-Soanian
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500,000 BP
| Lower Acheulean
Homo heidelbergensis
Homo neanderthalensis
worked pebbles
| Lower Acheulean
Homo heidelbergensis
Homo neanderthalensis
worked pebbles
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Lower Acheulean
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| Homo neanderthalensis
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| Padjitanian
Homo erectus pekinensis
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1,000,000 BP
| worked pebbles
Homo antecessor
| worked pebbles
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Homo erectus
worked pebbles
| lower Acheulean
Oldowan
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worked pebbles
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2,000,000 BP
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| Homo habilis, Homo ergaster
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