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This is a list of dates associated with the prehistoric peopling of the world (first known presence of Homo sapiens). The list is divided into four categories, Middle Paleolithic (before 50,000 years ago), Upper Paleolithic (50,000 to 12,500 years ago), Holocene (12,500 to 500 years ago) and Modern ( Age of Sail and modern exploration).
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 ...
Early humans were social and initially scavenged, before becoming active hunters. The need to communicate and hunt prey efficiently in a new, fluctuating environment (where the locations of resources need to be memorized and told) may have driven the expansion of the brain from 2 to 0.8 Ma. Evolution of dark skin at about 1.2 Ma. [39]
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. 139 ± 17 kya: Levallois core reductions, pointed tools and a variety of retouched artefacts at Retlapalle, India ...
Archaeologists found 115,000-year-old human footprints where they shouldn't be—and ... deep in the Nefud Desert at a location nicknamed “the trace” in Arabic, in 2017, after time and weather ...
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.
The Altamira cave paintings, located in northern Spain, were the first to show that prehistoric people were capable of creating sophisticated art and had a much richer culture of storytelling and ...
The first known footprints on land date to 530 Ma. [74] 520 Ma Earliest graptolites. [75] 511 Ma Earliest crustaceans. [76] 505 Ma Fossilization of the Burgess Shale: 500 Ma Jellyfish have existed since at least this time. 485 Ma First vertebrates with true bones (jawless fishes). 450 Ma First complete conodonts and echinoids appear. 440 Ma