(1-1) Spotted Horses and Human Hands Pech-Merle Cave Horses: 25,000-24,000 BCE Hands:15,000 BCE
(1-1) Spotted Horses and Human Hands Pech-Merle Cave Horses: 25,000-24,000 BCE Hands:15,000 BCE
(1-5) Reconstruction Drawing of Mammoth-Bone House Ukraine 16,000-10,000 BCE
(1-5) Reconstruction Drawing of Mammoth-Bone House Ukraine 16,000-10,000 BCE
(1-6) Lion-Human Hohlenstein-Stadel, Germany 30,000-26,000 BCE
(1-6) Lion-Human Hohlenstein-Stadel, Germany 30,000-26,000 BCE
(1-7) Woman from Willendorf Austria 24,000 BCE
(1-7) Woman from Willendorf Austria 24,000 BCE
(1-9) Woman from Brassempouy France 30,000 BCE
(1-9) Woman from Brassempouy France 30,000 BCE
(1-12) Bird-Headed Man with Bison Dordogne region of France 15,000 BCE
(1-12) Bird-Headed Man with Bison Dordogne region of France 15,000 BCE
(1-13) Bison Altamira, Spain 12,500 BCE
(1-13) Bison Altamira, Spain 12,500 BCE
(1-14) Bison Dordogne region of France 13,000BCE
(1-14) Bison Dordogne region of France 13,000BCE
(1-15) Reconstruction Drawing of Lepenski Vir House Serbia 6,000 BCE
(1-15) Reconstruction Drawing of Lepenski Vir House Serbia 6,000 BCE
(1-16) Human-Fish Sculpture Lepenski Vir, Serbia 6,300-5,500 BCE
(1-16) Human-Fish Sculpture Lepenski Vir, Serbia 6,300-5,500 BCE
(1-17) Men Taunting a Deer? Catalhöyük, Turkey 6,000 BCE
(1-17) Men Taunting a Deer? Catalhöyük, Turkey 6,000 BCE
(1-19 Tomb Interior with Corbeling and Engrave Stones Newgrange, Ireland 3,000-2,500 BCE
(1-19 Tomb Interior with Corbeling and Engrave Stones Newgrange, Ireland 3,000-2,500 BCE
(1-20) Stonehenge from the Air (1-21) Stonehenge from the Ground Salisbury Plain in Wiltshire, England 2,900-1,500 BCE
(1-20) Stonehenge from the Air (1-21) Stonehenge from the Ground Salisbury Plain in Wiltshire, England 2,900-1,500 BCE
(1-22) Plan of Stonehenge and its Surrounding Settlements
(1-22) Plan of Stonehenge and its Surrounding Settlements
before written history
Prehistoric
appeared 400,000 years ago
Homo sapiens
(modern humans) appeared 120,000 years ago
Homo sapiens sapiens
100,000-35,000 years ago
years of the vast movement of people from Africa
period of early human development
Stone Age
"Old Stone Age"; broken into Lower, Middle, and Upper
Paleolithic Age
"New Stone Age"
Neolithic Age
Before Common Era (BC)
BCE
Common Era (AD)
CE