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Tuesday, 05 November 2024, 19:47 (07:47 PM) GMT, day 310 of 2024
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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 |
"The First Civilizations," pp. 373--87-406 |
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3,300 B.C. | "Ötzi" The Iceman | ||
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c. 10,000 B.C. . . . dates vary regionally |
Early "Civilizations" (agriculture and village life begin...) |
Cf., Text 11th Ed., Ch. 14 |
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"Early Holocene Hunters and Gatherers," pp. 307-338 |
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12,000-11,500 ybp | Younger Dryas cooling (stadial) | ||
? - 18,000 [13,000?] ybp | "Hobbit" | ||
c. 35,000 - 60,000 B.C. |
Homo sapiens sapiens [National Geographic "Genographic" migration] ("Early Moderns" = Cro-Magnons...) |
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c. 100,000 ybp | Qafzeh, Israel,
Homo sapiens sapiens |
Cf., Text 11th Ed., Ch. 12 |
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c. 160,000 ybp |
Herto, Ethiopia, Homo
sapiens idaltu [BBC article] |
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c. 200,000 ybp | "Mitochondrial Eve" [based on DNA analysis] |
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c. 195,000
ybp |
Omo I and II, |
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c. 200,000 B.P.... [or c. 300,000 ybp?] |
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c. 0.4 mya... |
Homo sapiens heidelbergensis "Other Archaics" (Homo heidelbergensis) (Homo sapiens heidelbergensis) |
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c. 1.8 mya... | Homo erectus "Turkana Boy" -- Homo erectus [aka Homo ergaster] (1.5 mya) |
". . . Homo erectus and Contemporaries," pp. 231-250 |
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1.977 and 1.98 |
Australopithecus sediba Human origins story takes new turn -- BBCNews (08 September 2011) |
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c. 2.4 mya... | Early Homo (Homo habilis...) |
"Hominin Origins," pp. 197-230 |
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c. 2.6 mya . . . (11 August 2010) | -- first stone tools (Gona / Bouri, Ethiopia) | ||
c. 2.5 mya . . . | "Taung Child" |
"Early Hominins" Cf., Text 11th Ed., Ch. 9 |
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c. 2.7 mya . . . | "Zinj" -- Paranthropus (c., 2.7 mya) -- aka Australopithecus robustus |
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c. 3.2 mya . . . | "Little Foot" -- Australopithecus [species uncertain] (2.2-3.3 mya?) |
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c. 3.2 mya . . . | "Lucy" -- Australopithecus afarensis (2.9-3.9 mya / 3.2 mya) |
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c. 3.3 mya . . . | "Selam" -- [aka "Lucy's Child"] ( 3.3 mya) |
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c. 4.4 mya . . . | "Ardi" -- Ardipithecus ramidus (4.4 mya) -- Ardipithecus kadabba (5.8-5.2 mya / ~ 5.6 mya) |
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c. 5.6 mya . . . | "Toumai"
-- Sahelanthropus tchadensis (5.8-5.2 mya / ~ 5.6 mya ["Dental hominin"] [Nature article] |
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c. 6 mya . . . | Orrorin tugenensis (5.8-6.1 mya / ~ 6.0 mya) |
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c. 13 mya... | Pierolapithecus catalaunicus | ||
c. 17 mya... |
Sivapithecus
(Ramapithecus / Kenyapithecus / Ouranopithecus) Dryopithecus Proconsul |
Cf., Text 11th Ed., Ch. 9 "Hominin Origins," pp. 197-230 |
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c. 33 mya... | "Dental
Apes" (Aegyptopithecus, Apidium...) |
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c. 65 mya... | Primates | "An Overview of the Primates" and "Primate Behavior" pp. 115-172 |
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c. 13.7 bya . . . | creation of the universe | ||
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c. = circa = about
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