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Earliest evidence of human (not necessarily anatomically modern humans) presence at Arctic latitudes. [47] Asia, Central Asia, Tibetan Plateau: Tibet, PRC: 38: Salween River: Formerly dated to 15 kya, the date modern human presence in Tibet has been pushed back to at least 38 kya based on genetic evidence.
There is a possibility that this first wave of expansion may have reached China (or even North America [dubious – discuss] [46]) as early as 125,000 years ago, but would have died out without leaving a trace in the genome of contemporary humans. [22] Fuller projection map showing early human migrations according to mitochondrial population ...
H. erectus is the first known species to develop control of fire, by about 1.5 Ma. H. erectus later migrates throughout Eurasia, reaching Southeast Asia by 0.7 Ma. It is described in a number of subspecies. [38] Early humans were social and initially scavenged, before becoming active hunters.
At long irregular intervals, Earth's biosphere suffers a catastrophic die-off, a mass extinction, [9] often comprising an accumulation of smaller extinction events over a relatively brief period. [10] The first known mass extinction was the Great Oxidation Event 2.4 billion years ago, which killed most of the planet's obligate anaerobes.
The first humans to inhabit Europe made their way from east to west, the report also suggested. Initial dating of the Korolevo archaeological site, discovered in the 1970s, suggested it had been ...
Human history is the record of humankind from prehistory to the present. Modern humans evolved in Africa around 300,000 years ago and initially lived as hunter-gatherers.They migrated out of Africa during the Last Ice Age and had spread across Earth's continental land except Antarctica by the end of the Ice Age 12,000 years ago.
In 1856, scientists began studying a skeleton found in Germany's Neander Valley. The bones resembled a human's but differed in several key ways: the skull was longer and the limbs were thicker ...
194 kya – 177 kya: Modern human presence in West Asia (Misliya Cave in Israel). [12] [13] 170 kya: Humans are wearing clothing by this date. [14] 164 kya: Humans diet expands to include marine resources [15] 160 kya: Homo sapiens idaltu. [16] 150 kya: Peopling of Africa: Khoisanid separation, age of mtDNA haplogroup L0.