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The end of the Pleistocene era. Homo heidelbergensis living near Burgos, in the Atapuerca Mountains, at start of Holocene (the current ongoing warm climate period, during which modern human civilization has prospered) [3] The Allerød Oscillation occurs, an interstadial Deglaciation that weakens the rigorous conditions of the Ice Age.
The first and biggest period in Iberia's prehistory is the Paleolithic, which starts c. 1.3 Ma and ends almost coinciding with Pleistocene's ending, c. 11.500 years or 11.5 ka ago. Significant evidence of an extended occupation of Iberia during this period by Homo neanderthalensis has been discovered.
The Paleolithic in the Iberian peninsula is the longest period of Iberian prehistory, spanning from c. 1.3 million years ago to c. 11,500 years ago, ending at roughly the same time as the Pleistocene epoch.
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Iberia before Carthaginian conquests. ca. 400 BC The Greek historian Herodotus of Halicarnassus cites the word Iberia to designate what is now the Iberian Peninsula, according to ancient Greek costume. [4] Further development of strong Central European (Celtic) influences and migrations in western Iberia north of the Tagus River.
Population movements of the proto-historical or early historical period include the Migration period, followed by (or connected to) the Slavic, Magyar, Norse, Turkic and Mongol expansions of the medieval period. The last world regions to be permanently settled were the Pacific Islands and the Arctic, reached during the 1st millennium AD.
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The Iberian Peninsula, where Galicia is located, has been inhabited for at least 500,000 years, first by Neanderthals and then by modern humans. From about 4500 BC, it (like much of the north and west of the peninsula) was inhabited by a megalithic culture, which entered the Bronze Age about 1500 BC.