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The Sahara desert region is wet and fertile. Later Stone Age begins in Africa.
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Chatelperronian culture in France
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earliest evidence of advanced deep sea fishing technology at the Jerimalai cave site in East Timor - demonstrates high-level maritime skills and by implication the technology needed to make ocean crossings to reach Australia and other islands, as they were catching and consuming large numbers of big deep sea fish such as tuna
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extinction of Homo neanderthalensis
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oldest known figurative art of a human figure as opposed to a zoomorphic figure
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oldest known domesticated dog skulls show they existed in both Europe and Siberia by this time
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rock paintings tradition begins in Bhimbetka rock shelters in India, which presently as a collection is the densest known concentration of rock art. In an area about 10 sq km, there are about 800 rock shelters of which 500 contain paintings.
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Gravettian period in Europe. Harpoons, needles, and saws invented
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first colonization of North America
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The woolly rhinoceros goes extinct
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A major outbreak occurs on Lake Agassiz, which at the time could have been the size of the current Black Sea and the largest lake on Earth. Much of the lake is drained in the Arctic Ocean through the Mackenzie river.
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Earliest dates suggested for the domestication of the goat