- 5,000,000 -1,000,000 BC: Australopithecus
- 2,200,000 - 1,600,000 BC: Homo habilis
- 1,600,000 - 500,000 BC: Homo erectus
- Stone artifacts and weapons
- 500,000 - 80,000 BC: Homo sapiens
- 100,000 - 33,000 BC: Homo neanderthalensis
- 125,000: Homo sapiens sapiens
- c. 30,000 to 25,000 BC: Woman of Willendorf
- c. 27,000 to 23,000 BC: Dolni Vestonice
- 25,000 - 12,000 BC: Venus Figures
- 18,000 BC: Chauvet cave, France
- 15,000 BC: Lascaux cave paintings
- c. 14,000 to 10,000 BC: Altamira Cave Paintings
- 10,000 BC: First agricultural villages
- 10,000 BC: Invention of the bow and arrow
- 10,000 BC: Dogs and reindeer are domesticated
- 10,000 BC: Beginnings of settled agriculture
- 10,000 BC: Earliest pottery (Japan)
- 8,000 BC: Sheep and goats are domesticated
- 8,000 BC: Beginnings of rice cultivation in East Asia
- 8, 500 BC: Jericho is founded
- 6, 000 BC: Village of Ban Po in China
- 5,500 BC: Catal Huyuk
- 500 BC to AD 400: Adena and Hopewell Cultures
- ca. 4000 BC: The Culture of Vra
- ca. 2000 BC: Stonehenge
- AD 700 to 1731: Mississippian Culture
- 3,300 BC: First Sumerian cities
- 3100 BC: Beginnings of Egyptian civilization
- 2500 BC: Harappan Civilization
- 1800 BC: Shang dynasty in China
- 1200 BC: Olmec culture in Mesoamerica
- AD 400: Jenne-Jeno in Nigeria
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