| |
Timeline of History
Gradualist:
80,000 BC - 72,000 BC Out of Africa
(Bantu-Congo) to Ethiopia and Arabia (Semitic),, to India, Southeasst Asia
72,000
BC
Toba Volcano explosion in Sumatra devastates India
72,000 BC - 70,000 BC Back to India
(Dravidian), to Australia (Aboriginal), China coast (Formosan)
70,000 BC - 50,000 BC ICE AGE - Division
into Bantu, Semitic, Arian, Dravidian, Asian, SE Asian
50,000 BC
Aurignacian (Arian) culture
moves into S. Europe through fertile Anatolia, back to N. Africa
45.000 BC - 30,000 BC ICE AGE, Central Asia occupied
from S. Asia and E. Asia
30,000
BC
Gravettian culture moves west to Europe from Central Asia
25,000
BC
NE Asians move across Bering Strait to N America
25,000 BC - 10,000 BC ICE AGE
10,000
BC
Central Americans move to S. America
Periods of Prehistory
|
|
Mesopotamia |
Anatolia |
Levant |
Egypt |
Europe |
India |
China |
N. America |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
80,000 BC |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
75,000 |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
65,000 |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
60,000 |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
55,000 |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
50,000 |
|
|
|
|
|
Aurignacian |
|
|
|
45,000 |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
40,000 |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
35,000 |
|
|
|
|
|
Gravettian |
|
|
|
30,000 |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
25,000 |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
20,000 |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
15,000 |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Clovis |
10,000 BC |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
9500 |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
9000 |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
8500 |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
8000 |
Neolithic |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
7500 |
dog |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
7000 |
|
|
Catal Huyuk |
Jericho |
|
|
|
|
|
6500 |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
6000 |
|
|
|
|
|
Crete |
|
|
|
5500 |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Badarian |
|
|
|
|
5000 |
|
Hassuna |
|
|
Amratian |
|
|
Xia |
|
|
|
|
|
|
Gerzean |
|
|
|
|
4500 |
Chalcolithic |
Samarra |
|
Halaf |
Naqarra I |
|
|
Tang-Shao |
|
4000 |
Bronze |
Ubaid |
|
|
Naqarra II |
|
|
|
|
3500 |
wheel |
Uruk |
|
|
Naqarra III |
|
|
|
|
3000 |
|
Jemdet-Nasr |
|
|
Old Kingdom |
|
Mohenjo Daro |
Shang |
|
2500 |
|
Ur |
|
|
1st Intermediate |
|
Harrappa |
|
|
2000 |
|
Akkad |
|
|
Middle Kingdom |
|
|
|
|
1500 |
|
Assyria |
|
|
2nd Intermediate |
|
|
|
|
1000 |
|
|
|
|
New Kingdom |
|
|
|
|
|