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  A.D. 1859 End of the "Prescientific Period"
in Prehistoric Cultures Studies

 
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  X End of Prehistory
(writing begins)
dates vary regionally

 
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3,300 B.C. "Ötzi" The Iceman
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  c. 10,000 B.C.... Early "Civilizations"
(agriculture and village life begin...)
dates vary regionally

 
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"Hobbit"
? - 18,000 [13,000?] ybp


 
c.
35,000 - 60,000 B.C.

Homo sapiens sapiens


("Early Moderns" = Cro-Magnons
...)


  c. 100,000 ybp Qafzeh, Israel, Homo sapiens sapiens
  c. 160,000 ybp Herto, Ethiopia, Homo sapiens idaltu
[BBC article]
  c. 195,000 ybp

Omo I and II, Homo sapiens sapiens,
[BBC article]

 
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c.
200,000 B.P....
[or c. 300,000 ybp?]



"Homo sapiens neandertalensis

(Homo neandertalensis)
(Homo sapiens neandertalensis)

 

"Premodern Humans"
aka "Archaics"

Cf., Text Ch. 11
"Premodern Humans,"
pp. 245-274

 

c.
0.4 mya...
Homo sapiens heidelbergensis

"Other Archaics"
(Homo heidelbergensis)
(Homo sapiens heidelbergensis)

 
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  c. 1.8 mya... Homo erectus
 
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  c. 2.4 mya... Early Homo
(Homo habilis...)

 
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c
. 3.2 mya . . .


"Lucy"




"Early Hominids"

  c. 5.5 mya... Australopithecines
(Australopithecus... and, later,
Paranthropus aka Australopithecus robustus
...)
  c. 6 mya

5.8 mya (5.2+)

6 - 7 mya
Orrorin tugenesis
("Millennium Man " [sic.])

Ardipithecus ramidus kadabba
"Toumaï" (Sahelanthropus tchadensis) ["Dental hominid"]
[Nature article]

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  c. 13 mya... Pierolapithecus catalaunicus  
 

c. 17 mya...

Sivapithecus
(Ramapithecus / Kenyapithecus / Ouranopithecus)
Dryopithecus
Proconsul

 


  c. 33 mya... "Dental Apes"
(Aegyptopithecus, Apidium...)

 


  c. 65 mya... Primates
       
  c. 13.7 bya . . . creation of the universe  


* c. = circa = about

B.C. = "before Christ," or "before common era"
ybp = "years before present"
mya = million years ago
bya = billion years ago

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