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.

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. 

                                                                                        Richard C. Sheehan