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.

 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.