Final Timeline

By carestonn
  • 271,820 BCE

    (4-2 million BCE) Australopithecines

    4-2 million years ago (Scarre, 53)
  • 271,819 BCE

    (3.6 million BCE) The first unequivocal fossil evidence for bipedalism

    3.6 million years ago
  • 271,818 BCE

    (2.6 million BCE) Earliest stone tools

    2.6 million years ago
  • 271,817 BCE

    (2 million BCE) Earliest Homo sapiens remains outside of Africa

    2 million years ago
  • 271,816 BCE

    (1.6 million BCE) Acheulean tools

    1.6 million years ago
  • 271,815 BCE

    (700,000 BCE) Homo heidelbergensis spreads into Eurasia

    700,000 BCE
  • 271,814 BCE

    (300,000 BCE) Anatomically modern Homo sapiens

    300,000 BCE
  • 250,000 BCE

    Neanderthals

    250,000 BCE
  • 130,000 BCE

    Behaviorally modern Homo sapiens

    130,000 to 80,000 years ago
  • 12,600 BCE

    Monte Verde

    14600 years ago (Scarre, 152)
  • 8500 BCE

    Domestication of Wheat

    8500 BCE (Scarre, 181)
  • 7750 BCE

    Domestication of dogs in Eurasia

    8000-7500 BCE (Scarre, 317)
  • 5000 BCE

    Domestication of Maize

    (Scarre, 306)
  • 3500 BCE

    The first city, Uruk

    3500 BCE (Scarre, 436)
  • 3000 BCE

    arliest evidence for monumental architecture in Andean South America

    3000 BCE
  • 2554 BCE

    Construction of the pyramids on the Giza Plateau in Egypt

    Is thought to be 2554 BCE, but could be closer to 2480 ± 5 BCE (Scarre, 370)
  • 2070 BCE

    Xia Dynasty

    2070 BCE: Xia Dynasty
  • 1600 BCE

    Shang Dynasty

    1600 BCE until it is defeated by Zhou in 1045 BCE (Scarre, 588)
  • 1500 BCE

    The Olmec civilization of Mexico’s Gulf Coast

    1500 BCE
  • 1300 BCE

    Great Zimbabwe

    13th to 15th Century BCE (Scarre, 380)
  • 1045 BCE

    Zhou Dynasty

    1045-221 BCE (Scarre, 588)
  • 1000 BCE

    Expansion of Bantu-speaking people across sub-Saharan Africa

    1000 BCE
  • 900 BCE

    The Clovis Period

    1100-900 BCE (Scarre, 156)
  • 400 BCE

    The Maya civilization

    400 BCE (Scarre, 601)
  • 214 BCE

    First construction of the Great Wall of China

    221-207 BCE (Scarre, 563)
  • 550

    Earliest evidence for domesticated plants in West Africa

    550 CE
  • 1025

    Establishment and abandonment of Chaco Canyon

    850-1200 CE (Scarre, 688)
  • 1375

    The Inca Empire

    1375 CE (Scarre, 657)
  • 1430

    The Aztec Empire

    Roughly 1430-1520 CE based on the textbook's timeline (Scarre, 592)

  • Cahokia

    1000-1650 CE (Scarre, 677)

  • Establishment of L’anse aux Meadows

    1860 CE (Scarre, 699)

  • The year I was born