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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.
A Ralliformes, Songziidae Hou, 1990, this is the type species of the new genus. Stictocarbo kumeyaay [27] Valid Sp. nov. Robert M. Chandler. Late Pliocene. Blancan, San Diego Formation USA: California. A Phalacrocoracidae, transferred to the genus Phalacrocorax Brisson, 1760. Sula clarki [27] Valid Sp. nov. Robert M. Chandler. Late Pliocene ...
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.
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March – Swash Channel Wreck, a continental European armed merchantman of the early 17th century, is found off the south coast of England. July - Discovered the rests of a man of the Ortoiroid culture in Vieques island, Puerto Rico, dated back about 2000 b.c.
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 ...
The Mogente Warrior, Iberian work housed in the Valencia Museum of Prehistory.. The Prehistory Research Service (Servicio de Investigación Prehistórica, SIP) of the Diputación of Valencia and the Museum of Prehistory are founded in 1927 at the request of Isidro Ballester Tormo as a scientific institution dedicated to research, preserve and promote the archaeological heritage of Valencia.
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.