• 320 kya - 305 kya: Populations at Olorgesailie in Southern Kenya undergo technological improvements in tool making and engage in long-distance 展开

The terms "Neolithic" and "Bronze Age" are culture-specific and are mostly limited to cultures of select parts of the Old World, namely Europe, Western and South Asia. Chronological periodizations typically base their periods on one or more identifiable and unique markers … 展开

• 3,800 years ago (1800 BC): Currently undeciphered Minoan script (Linear A) and Cypro-Minoan script developed on Crete and Cyprus.
• 3,450 years … 展开

• Burns, Ross (2005). Damascus: A History. Routledge. ISBN 978-1134488506.
• Kristiansen, … 展开

"Epipaleolithic" or "Mesolithic" are terms for a transitional period between the Last Glacial Maximum and the Neolithic Revolution in Old World (Eurasian) cultures.
• 80 kya - 40 kya: Evidence of Australian Aboriginal Culture. 展开

Researchers deduced in a scientific review that "no specific point in time can currently be identified at which modern human ancestry was confined to a limited birthplace" and that current knowledge about long, continuous and complex – e.g. often non-singular, … 展开

• Human Timeline (Interactive) – Smithsonian, National Museum of Natural History (August 2016). 展开