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Prehistoric Europe refers to Europe before the start of written records, [3] ... when it gave way to the Hallstatt culture, an Iron Age evolution of the Urnfield culture.
14 kya: Western Hunter Gatherers (descended from Ancient North Eurasians) of the Epigravettian culture expand into Europe and replace the Magdalenian culture. [82] 14 kya – 12 kya: Oldest evidence for prehistoric warfare (Jebel Sahaba, Natufian culture). [83] 13 kya – 10 kya: End of the Last Glacial Period, climate warms, glaciers recede.
The history of Europe is traditionally divided into four time periods: prehistoric Europe (prior to about 800 BC), classical antiquity (800 BC to AD 500), the Middle Ages (AD 500–1500), and the modern era (since AD 1500). The first early European modern humans appear in the fossil record about 48,000 years ago, during the Paleolithic era.
Europe: Germany: 43–42: Geißenklösterle, Baden-Württemberg: Three Paleolithic flutes belonging to the early Aurignacian, which is associated with the assumed earliest presence of Homo sapiens in Europe . It is the oldest example of prehistoric music. [38] Europe, Baltic: Lithuania: 43–41: Šnaukštai near Gargždai
Paleolithic Europe, or Old Stone Age Europe, encompasses the Paleolithic or Old Stone Age in Europe from the arrival of the first archaic humans, about 1.4 million years ago until the beginning of the Mesolithic (also Epipaleolithic) around 10,000 years ago. This period thus covers over 99% of the total human presence on the European continent. [1]
Chalcolithic culture of Vila Nova, a Megalithic European culture, around the area of modern Lisbon. Beaker culture spreads to most of Western Europe (Portugal, Spain, France (excluding the central massif), Great Britain and Ireland, the Low Countries , and Germany from the Elbe valley west, with an extension along the upper Danube into the ...
The period when a culture is written about by others, but has not developed its own writing system, is often known as the protohistory of the culture. By definition, [ 2 ] there are no written records from human prehistory, which can only be known from material archaeological and anthropological evidence: prehistoric materials and human remains.
The Ancient North Eurasian component was introduced to Western Europe by people related to the Yamnaya culture. [138] Additional ANE ancestry is found in European populations through Paleolithic interactions with Eastern Hunter-Gatherers. [139]