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This timeline of prehistory covers the time from the appearance of Homo sapiens approximately 315,000 years ago in Africa to the invention of writing, over 5,000 years ago, with the earliest records going back to 3,200 BC. Prehistory covers the time from the Paleolithic (Old Stone Age) to the beginning of ancient history.
1000–1750: Fort Ancient culture, a non-Mississippian culture emerges in modern-day southern Ohio, northern Kentucky, southeastern Indiana, and western West Virginia. 1000–1780: Plains Village period on Great Plains, from North Dakota to Texas [ 3 ]
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History portal; Art of Europe; Geologic time scale; List of fossil sites with link directory. List of timelines around the world. Logarithmic timeline shows all history on one page in ten lines. Orders of magnitude (time) Periodization for a discussion of the tendency to try to fit history into non-overlapping periods. Time. Planck Time
Timeline of art (prehistoric – present) Timeline of architecture (8000 BCE – present) Timeline of architectural styles (6000 BCE – present) Timeline of Native American art history (10,200 BCE – present) List of years in literature (2400 BCE – present) 2025 in literature; Chronology of works by Caravaggio; Chronology of Shakespeare's ...
The word "prehistory" first appeared in English in 1836 in the Foreign Quarterly Review. [16] The geologic time scale for pre-human time periods, and the three-age system for human prehistory, were systematised during the nineteenth century in the work of British, French, German, and Scandinavian anthropologists, archaeologists, and antiquarians.
i) Proto-history (c.1500 - 500 BCE) known as Vedic period. ii) Historical period after 500 BCE. East Asia East Asia Periods: Neolithic c. 7500 BCE Pengtoushan culture: North Asia North Asia Periods: Korea Korean Periods: Paleolithic c. 40,000/30,000 – c. 8000 BCE Jeulmun pottery period c. 8000 – 1500 BCE Mumun pottery period c. 1500 – 300 BCE
This timeline focuses on species of Homo and covers the Pleistocene from the first evidence of humans.; The names used for glaciations and interglacials are those with historic usage for Britain and may not reflect the full climate detail of modern studies.