47,000 BP to 44,000 BP

47,000 BP to 45,000 BP, Ukraine: There were Neanderthal settlements/sites in what is now Ukraine.

~ to 45,000 BP, Ukraine: There were Neanderthal settlements/sites during this period in what has become  Ukraine.

45,000 BP: Neanderthal carved a flute from the leg bone of a young bear, in the region which is now Slovenia.
~ Palaeolithic hunter gatherers used mammoth tusks and bones to support hide-covered tents  at what is now Dolni Vestonice in the Czech Republic.

~ to 43,000 BP, Lebanon: At Ksar Akil ornaments and skeletal remains of modern humans dated to this period.

~ to 43,000 BP, Lebanon:At Al Ksar, ornaments and skeletal remains of  modern humans dated to this period were found.

43 ,000 BP, Russia: There is good evidence that Denisovians and Neanderthals lived with modern humans about this time.

42,000 BP to 37,000 BP, Europe: Cro Magnon appeared and there was an early cultural center in the Swabian Alb with the earliest figurative art in the form of the Venus of Scheklinge, beginning the Aurignacian period.

40,000 BP, Italy: About this date there was a volcanic eruption at Campi Flegrei.

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: