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Prehistory, also called pre-literary history, [1] is the period of human history between the first known use of stone tools by hominins c. 3.3 million years ago and the beginning of recorded history with the invention of writing systems.
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.
The Cerro do Castelo de Santa Justa, in Alcoutim, is dated to the 3rd millennium BC, [20] between 2400 and 1900 BC. [18] Extent of the Beaker culture Crystal dagger blade from the Tholos de Montelirio in Valencina de la Concepción, 3000-2500 BC. It is also the period of the great expansion of megalithism, with its associated collective burial ...
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The Pre-Columbian period in Venezuela refers to the period before the Spanish colonization of the Americas in the 16th century, known as the Pre-Columbian era.It covers the history of what are now known as the indigenous peoples of Venezuela.
The Vogelherd Cave (German: Vogelherdhöhle, or simply Vogelherd) is located in the eastern Swabian Jura, south-western Germany.This limestone karst cave came to scientific and public attention after the 1931 discovery of the Upper Palaeolithic Vogelherd figurines, attributed to paleo-humans of the Aurignacian culture.
The Precambrian includes approximately 90% of geologic time. It extends from 4.6 billion years ago to the beginning of the Cambrian Period (about 539 Ma).It includes the first three of the four eons of Earth's prehistory (the Hadean, Archean and Proterozoic) and precedes the Phanerozoic eon.
Eller's book has been criticised by feminist historian Max Dashu for "mischaracterising" the theories of Gimbutas and other key anthropologists, and for labeling them as "matriarchalist" despite most of these scholars rejecting ideas of matriarchy (female rulership) in favour of matrifocal or matrilineal societies.