Paleolithic and Neolithic Age

  • Period: 200,000 BCE to 200,000 BCE

    Paleolithic Age 2,000,000 BCE

    Paleolithic Age/ Old Stone Age beings!
  • Period: 28,000 BCE to 28,000 BCE

    28000 BCE

    First evidence of paleolithic religious beliefs
  • Period: 28,000 BCE to 22,000 BCE

    28,000 BCE - 20,000 BCE

    People lived in cages or simple huts
  • Period: 28,000 BCE to 20,000 BCE

    28,000 BCE - 20,000 BCE

    Oldowan Stage - development of pebble tools
  • Period: 28,000 BCE to 20,000 BCE

    28,000 BCE - 20,000 BCE

    Cheulean Stage - hand axes and cleaving tools are excavated
  • Period: 28,000 BCE to 20,000 BCE

    28,000 BCE - 20,000 BCE

    Middle Paleolithic - Use of fire begins in weapons. Also, widespread fires
  • Period: 28,000 BCE to 20,000 BCE

    28,000 BCE - 20,000 BCE

    Lomelcian Stage - Early hammering and other rock chopping tools
  • Period: 20,000 BCE to 20,000 BCE

    Neolithic Age 20,000 BCE

    Cave painting in Spain and France
  • Period: 10,000 BCE to 10,000 BCE

    10,000 BCE

    Beginnings of agriculture in Middle East
  • Period: 8000 BCE to 8000 BCE

    8,000 BCE

    Ovens are applied to pottery production
  • Period: 7700 BCE to 7700 BCE

    7,700 BCE

    1st wheats in the fertile crescent
  • Period: 7500 BCE to 7500 BCE

    7,500 BCE

    Long distance trade in obsidian begins
  • Period: 7000 BCE to 6500 BCE

    7,000 BCE - 6,500 BCE

    Domestication of goats and pigs
  • Period: 6200 BCE to 6200 BCE

    6,200 BCE

    1st Copper smelting in Anatolia
  • Period: 6000 BCE to 6000 BCE

    6,000

    First irrigation
  • Period: 4800 BCE to 4800 BCE

    4,800

    Neolithic Village of Banpo in China built
  • Period: 4500 BCE to 4500 BCE

    4,500 BCE

    Neolithic Village of Banpo is inhabited
  • Period: 4300 BCE to 4300 BCE

    4,300 BCE

    First megalithic in Europe
  • Period: 3000 BCE to 3000 BCE

    3,000 BCE

    Digging in Aubrey; Stonehenge phase
  • Period: 2500 BCE to 2000 BCE

    2,500 BCE - 2,000 BCE

    The Balriiuaran of Clava is built
  • Period: 2000 BCE to 2000 BCE

    2,000 BCE

    Bronze Age begins.. ending of Neolithic Age