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.