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                

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.

 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.