41,000 BP to 38,000 BP

40,000 BP: Evidence strongly suggest that tool making and ocean crossing in Southeast Asia occurred at about this time.

~ Sea-level was about 50 meters below 2,000 AD levels at this time.

~ Italy: About this date there was a volcanic eruption at Campi Flegrei, Naples.

~ West Asia including the Middle East: Amoudian culture.

26,000 BP to 23,000 BP

 26,000 BP to 23,000 BC

25,000 BP, France: At Brassempouy Venus figure was carved which may be the oldest known example to have facial figures.

25,000 BP: France at Brassempouy: A Venous Figurine is carved which is the oldest example of facial features.

25,000 BP: France at Brassempouy: A Venous Figurine is carved which is the oldest example of facial features.

~ Czech Republic: Venus of Petrkovice from Petrkovice in Ostrava was made about this time. It is now in the Archaeological Institute, Brno.

24,000 BP: Russia at Kostenky in the Don region: An unusually decorated figurine is carve carved from limestone.

~ Venus of Brassempouy, found in Grotte du Pape, Brassempouy, Landes

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~ Russia: at Kostenky in the Don region: An unusually decorated figurine is carve carved from limestone.  Russia: an unusually decorated female was carved in limestone at Kostenky, in the Don river region.

~ last glacial maximum.

~ Austria: Venus of Willendorf was made. It is now at Nature historisches Museum, Vienna.

~ North Africa: The second Mousterian Pluvial started.

23,000 BP, Russia: Someone carved a figure of a flying bird, in mammoth ivory, in the Malta settlement in Siberia.

~ to 19,000 BP: Solutrian culture may have reached Ireland as it did France, Spain, and England.

~ Czech Republic: Venus of Petrkovice in Ostrava was made.It is now in the Archaeological Institute, Brno.

 47,000 BP to 44,000 BP

47,000 BP to 45,000 BP, Ukraine: There were Neanderthal settlements/sites in what is now Ukraine.

~ to 45,000 BP, Ukraine: There were Neanderthal settlements/sites during this period in what has become  Ukraine.

45,000 BP: Neanderthal carved a flute from the leg bone of a young bear, in the region which is now Slovenia.
~ Palaeolithic hunter gatherers used mammoth tusks and bones to support hide-covered tents  at what is now Dolni Vestonice in the Czech Republic.

~ to 43,000 BP, Lebanon: At Ksar Akil ornaments and skeletal remains of modern humans dated to this period.

~ to 43,000 BP, Lebanon:At Al Ksar, ornaments and skeletal remains of  modern humans dated to this period were found.

43 ,000 BP, Russia: There is good evidence that Denisovians and Neanderthals lived with modern humans about this time.

42,000 BP to 37,000 BP, Europe: Cro Magnon appeared and there was an early cultural center in the Swabian Alb with the earliest figurative art in the form of the Venus of Scheklinge, beginning the Aurignacian period.

40,000 BP, Italy: About this date there was a volcanic eruption at Campi Flegrei.

32,000 BP to 29,000 BP

 32,000 BP to 29,000 BP

 

 

32,000 BP. About this time Khormusan tools were supplanted by cultures such as the Germanian.

32,000 BP to 21,000 BP: Aurignacian culture was located in Europe and South-West Asia. It may have been contemporary with the Prigordian culture.

~ End of the Mousterian Pluvial in North Africa.

~ Mysterian Neanderthals may have lived as recently as this.

~ Significant evidence of humans in North America.

~ Neanderthals were around to about his time from about 250,000 years ago so they probably had opportunity to see giants and humans. 

~ or earlier ca 31,000 0r 30,000 BP: The Late Paleolithic started in Egypt at these times. Human skeletons very like modern humans, but not quite which were dated to this period were found at the Nazlet Khater site in upper Egypt.

~ Early cave paintings well in evidence.

~ Upper Paleolithic: Stillbayan culture.

~ West Asia, including the Middle East: Emirian culture.

~ South, central, and northern Asia: Angara culture.

~ East and southwest Asia: Sen-Doki culture. 

31,000 BP: Rhinoceroses, lions, and mammoths featured on the walls of the Chauvet cave in southern France.

~ With the onset of the most recent Ice Age (the Holocene), layers of ice up to two miles thick blanketed northern regions, causing a massive reduction in sea level.

~ With  the fall in sea level, a land bridge (called Beringa) formed between Siberia and Alaska, which may have allowed the migration of some humans to enter the continent of America.

31,000 BP to 27,000 BP: Venus of Dolni Vestonice. It is the oldest known ceramic in the world. The Red Lady of Paviland(?) lived around 29 - 26,000 years ago. 30,000 BP~ Japan: Evidence that people lived in what is now Japan at this time.

~ 30,000 BP: With sea levels falling, a land bridge, known as Berigia, forms between Siberia and Alaska, enabling humans to enter the continent of America. Did the ones coming by sea have to line up to show their visa?

~ North America: Some evidence of humans.

~ First strong evidence of modern man in North America. We may find good evidence of modern man in NA earlier than 200,000 BP, probably not exactly the same as modern man.

~ Some overlap with Neanderthals. That is Neanderthals probably lived this recently.

~ Strong evidence of modern man in the New world by this time.

29,000 BP: Painted and engraved images, on the rock face in a cave near Twyfelfontein in Nambia date from a period about this time.

~ In the Cosquer cave near Marseilles, with irs entrance now far below sea level, a hand print was made.

 

 

 

 

 23,000 BP to 20,000 BP

 

23,000 BP: Someone carved a figure of a flying bird in mammoth ivory in the Malta settlement in Siberia.

~ to 19,000 BP: Solutrian culture may have reached Ireland as it did France and England, and spain.

 

 

22,000 BC to 20,000 BC: Ireland: Evidence, from this Midland Ice Age period, of wolves living in Ireland throughout the period.

~ North Africa: End of the second Mousterian Pluvial.

~ to 4,000 BC: Rapidly rising sea levels lead to human migrations inland.

~ France and Spain: wonderful early cave paintings in what are now these countries.

~ West Asia, including the Middle East: Aurignacian culture.

~ Last Glacial Maximum.

~ France: Venus of Brassempouy, Grotte du Pape, Brassempouy, Landes was made. It is now at Musee des Antiquites Nationales, St-Germain-en-Laye, Landes was made.

~ Europe: Neanderthals believed to have become extinct.

~ to 21,000 BP, Austria: Venus of Willendorf  was made during this time. It is now at Naturhristoriches Museum, Vienna 

21,000 BP to 19,000 BP: Solutrean culture May have reached Ireland as it certainly did France, Spain, and England. Their artifacts dated to around 21.000 before disappearing around 17,000 BP.

                                                       

20,000 BP: Aterian tools have been dated in Egypt from about 150,000 and continued to flourish until 130,000 BP, but similar finds have been found dating to only 20,000, BP.

~ North Africa: The end of the second Mousterian Pluvial.                                  ~ Sardinia: Human bones dating to about this time were found in the Corbeddu cave of Oliena. 

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38,000 BP to 35,000 BP

 38,000 BP t0 35,000 BP

 

 

37,000 BP, Russia: Strong evidence that modern humans lived on the banks of the river Don (Tanis).

~ Azerbaijan: What could have been happening at the Zar, Yataghyerri, Damjili, and Taghlar caves?

 

 

36,000 BP: Ireland: Evidence of wolves dated to around this time found at an excavated cave site at Castlepark Ca

 

 

 

 

35,000 BP: There was a widespread distribution of colonies in the Near East. ?

~ The earliest known Venus figurine, with much emphasized sexual features, was carved near Hohle Fels cave in Germany from the tusk of a woolly Mammoth.

~ The Neanderthals vanished quite suddenly from the fossil record, leaving modern humans as the only surviving members of our species.

~ to 14,000 BP: This Upper Palaeolithic era is the final section of the Old Stone Age. It had lasted to the Neolithic Era.

~ to 29,000 BP: overlap among Neanderthals and Homo Sapiens on Earth.

~ to 27,000 BP The Chatelperronian culture was located around central and south western France and northern Spain. I seems to be derived from the earlier Mousterian culture. This culture represents the period of overlap between Neanderthal and Homo Sapiens.

 29,000 BP to 26,000 BP

29,000 BP, Namibia: Painted and engraved images on the rock face in a cave near Twyfel fontein date to this period. 

~ France: In the Casque cave near Marseilles with its entrance now far below sea-level, a hand print is made.

28,000 BP: (Mysterian) Neanderthals may have lived as recently as this.

~ What Earth and Solar System changes were going within about 3,000 years of this time like: Comets, volcanism, earthquakes, movement of planets, floods, large climate change, large die-offs.

~ France: Gravettian culture was located around France. Evidence of Gravettian products have been found across central Europe and Russia.

27,000,000 BP: A volcanic eruption at La Garita Caldera site of the San Juan volcanic field in Colorado, U.S.A. Approximate ejecta bulk volume: 5,000 km Cubed.

~ The Laramide Revolution shook the Earth. It raised the U.S. state of New Mexico above sea level and began a period of volcanism.

~ 20,000 BP: The Gravettian period in what is now the Czech Republic, mostly from the Dolni Vestonice site near Moravia. Figures in "burnt clay" approaching ceramics, carved figures of males in ivory, textiles. A high status interment of a woman of advance years was of interest. Evidence of longer life span and of respect for elders.

~ Czech Republic: Early ceramics: humans at a famous site near the village of Dolni Vestonice where figures were molded in burnt clay. This is the site of the Paleolithic Venus, The Venus of Dolni. Many well fired clay objects have been found in addition to the Venus. Other findings included carvings in ivory some of which included faces that seem to have portraits. An articulated male doll in ivory was also found.

~ Austria near border of Czech Republic: The Willendorf Venus, a Stone Age sculpture shapes a timeless image of female fecundity. It is associated with Upper Paleolithic Industry from the end of the Old Stone Age which ended about 12,000 BP ("Noah's flood") and began about 50,000 BC.

27,000 BP to 19,000 BP, France: Wall painting with horses, rhinoceroses, and aurochs, Chauvet Cave, Vallon-Pont-d'Arch, Ardeche gorge. Discovered in 1994.

~ Africa: Rock art of the San people in the Drakensberg area of Lesotho, South Africa.

~ Hunters make clay models.

26,500 BP, New Zealand: On the North Island the Oruanui eruption occurred in the Taupo Volcanic zone including Lake Taupo. It could be called a super eruption.

26,000 BP: The last glacial maximum was happening.

~ France: The lovely lady of Brasempouy was made in what is now France.

~ North Africa: This has been called the start of the second Mousterian Pluvial in this part of Africa.

25,000 BP: France at Brassempouy: A Venous Figurine is carved which is the oldest example of facial features.

~ Czech Republic: Venus of Petrkovice from Petrkovice in Ostrava was made about this time. It is now in the Archaeological Institute, Brno.

24,000 BP: Russia at Kostenky in the Don region: An unusually decorated figurine is carve carved from limestone.

50,000 BP to 47,000 BP

50,000 BP to 47,000 BP

50,000 BP: Evidence of horse-back riding dated to this time.

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49,000 BP: Neanderthals may have lived in Spain as recently as this date (Cidron)

48,000 BP, New Zealand: About this time there was a large volcanic eruption at Rotoiti Ignimbrite, North Island.

46,000 BP, Indonesia 2021: Nice painting of a large pig as part of a larger scene in a cave in Sulawesi.

45,000 BP, Slovenia: Neanderthals carve a flute from the leg bone of a young bear in the region of what is now Slovenia,

 

 

 

43,000 BP: Evidence that by this time Denisovans and  Neanderthals lived with "modern humans" in what is now Siberian Russia.

 

 

 

37,000 BP: Strong evidence of modern humans living on the banks of the river Don (Tanis). 

 

 

 

35,000 BP: Near East:There were many colonies in widespread distribution.

 

 

 

32,000 BP: Evidence of early cave-painting in Europe and elsewhere.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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 35,000 BP to 32,000 BP

35,000 BP to 29,000 BP: Overlap period among Neanderthals and homo sapiens.

33,000 BC: In what became Ireland, there is evidence that at about this time there was human habitation.

 

34,000 BP to 23,000 BP: The Aurignacian culture was located in Europe and southwest Asia. It may have been contemporary with the Prigordian.

~ End of the Mousterian Pluvial in North Africa.

~ Mysterian Neanderthals may have lived as recently as this. Evidence of Neanderthals begins about 250,000 BP.

~ Significant evidence of humans in North America. 

~  Europeans can harden clay figures by firing them at high temperatures, perhaps in "ovens."

~ Strong evidence of modern human habitation of the what is now Ukraine by this time. 

~ Evidence suggests that the use of the atlatl, spear thrower, was active at this time.

~ to 23,000 BP: The Aurignacian culture was located in Europe and Southeast Asia. It may have been contemporary with the Prigordian.

~ 32,000 BP: Reinvention of the bow and arrow.

~ North Africa: End of the Mousterian Pluvial.

~ North America: Significant evidence of humans.

~ Neanderthals  were around at this time from about 250,000 years ago, so they probably had the opportunity to see giants.

~ to 28,000 BP, Germany: Figurine of "lion/human" form, from Holhenstin-Stadel created. It is now in the Ulmer Museum, Ulm.

32,000 BP: Reinvention of the bow and arrow.

~ North Africa: End of the Mousterian Pluvial.

~ Mysterian Neanderthals may have lived as recently as this.

~ North America: Significant evidence of humans.

~ Neanderthals were around from about this time from about 250,000 years ago, so they probably had opportunity to see giants.

~ to 28,000 BP, Germany: Lion/human from Hohlenstein-Stadel was created.It is now in Ulmer Museum of Ulm.

32,000 BP: Early cave painting in evidence

30,000 BP: The Late Paleolithic may have started in Egypt about this time, but some date it from 29,000 to 28,000 years ago. Human skeletons very much like modern humans, but not quite, which dated to this earlier period at the Nazlet Khater site in Upper Egypt.

44,000 BP to 41,000 BP 

43,000 BP: There is good evidence that by this time Denisovans and Neanderthals lived with "modern humans" in what is now Siberian Russia.

42,000 BP to 32,000 BP Khormusan Industry stone tools have been dated as active in Egypt at this time, Preceded by Aterian tools
42,000 BP: Magnetic poles flipped causing changes in temperature and radiation levels which may have killed many large mammals, which very likely included many humans!!

~ to 37,000 BP, Europe: Cro Magnon appear in early cultural center in the Swabian Alb, there very early figurative art found(Venus of Schelklingen is an example), beginning Aurignacian.