Timeline of ancient religions and society By Tylah 50,000 BCE Symbolic Revolution 40,000 BCE Mungo Woman Period: 40,000 BCE to 130,000 BCE Homo neanderthalensis Period: 37,000 BCE to 230,000 BCE Lazaret Cave Period: 31,000 BCE to 40,000 BCE Aurignacian flutes Period: 30,000 BCE to 60,000 BCE Homo heidelbergensis Period: 23,600 BCE to 33,500 BCE homo naledi between 335,000 and 236,000 years ago 13,000 BCE Trois-Frères cave 10,000 BCE Thousand year drought Period: 9600 BCE to 7000 BCE Gobekli Tepe Period: 4500 BCE to 1900 BCE Sumerian Empire Period: 3500 BCE to 3000 BCE Cuneiform Period: 2900 BCE to 2350 BCE Gilgamesh Period: 1353 BCE to 1335 BCE Pharaoh Akhenaton Period: 930 BCE to 1047 BCE Ancient Israelite Commonwealth Period: 668 BCE to 627 BCE Ashurbanipal Period: 300 BCE to 500 BCE Axial Age 1 BCE Dmanisi skull 1.8 million years old Period: 610 to 632 Qur’an 12,000 Agricultural revolution