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:
