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.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

27,000 BP: 

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.