The Principal prehistoric cultures of the Old World
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Prehistoric Europe
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History of Africa and
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African archaeology
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Near Eastern archaeology
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History of Asia
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Period & Climate
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Western Europe
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Central Europe and Eastern Europe
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North Africa, West Africa and Sahara
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Central Africa, South and East Africa
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Middle East
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South Asia, India and Central Asia
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Far East and South-East Asia
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After the year 1000
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Medieval
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Iron Age of the Chad Basin
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1000 CE
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Opening of the Middle Ages
End of Antiquity
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Iron Age
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Iron Age in Niger Roman Empire
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Iron Age in Kenya, Uganda Tanzania, Zambia, Zimbabwe
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Roman Empire
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1 BCE
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Iron Age
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Iron Age
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Nigeria, Great Lakes
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First cultivators of the equatorial forest
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Empire of Alexander Persian Empire Phoenicians
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Mauryan Empire (India) Steppe Scythians Indian Iron Age
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Chinese Iron Age Chinese Zhou period
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1000 BCE
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Bronze Age
Bell beaker
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Bronze Age Myceneans
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Copper Age in Niger
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development of agriculture in East Africa
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Hittites Assyrians
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development of pastoralism in India Bactrian towns
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Chinese Bronze Age Chinese Shang period
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2000 BCE.
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Chalcolithic
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corded ceramic
domestication of the horse
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Neolithic of Tichit
Tenerean
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Akkad Empire Sumarian Kingdom
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Indus Valley civilisation
writing
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Chinese Neolithic of Longshan
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3000 BCE
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enclosed villages
first megaliths
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Chalcolithic of Central Europe
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Beginning of the Hunter-gatherer art of South Africa
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Bronze Age
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4000 BCE
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Lower Neolithic
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Danubian Neolithic
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Mediterranean and Egyptian Neolithic
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Chalcolithic (copper metallurgy)
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Neolithic of Iran
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Neolithic of Yang-Shao rice-growing (?)
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5000 BCE
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Cardial (agriculture, stock-rearing, pottery)
Tardenoisian cultures
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agriculture, stock-rearing (pigs, bovine, Sheep)
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Neolithic of the Sahara/Sahel
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irrigated agriculture ceramic Cyprus
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(and Caucasian)
irrigation
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cultivation of millet pig rearing
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6000 BCE
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Sauveterrian cultures (gathering of Legumes)
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in Greece and the Eastern Mediterranean
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ceramic
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Neolithic with ceramic raising sheep & goats end of pre-ceramic B aceramic Cyprus
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pre-ceramic of Iran Afghanistan and Baluchistan
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Neolithic of northern China
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7000 BCE
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Backed point culture
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Wiltonian
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Pre-ceramic B (wheat, barley) Neolithic Pre-ceramic A
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hunter gatherers of Jomon (ancient Japan)
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8000 BCE
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Azilian
and Asiloid cultures
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Capsian
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Hoabinhian of South-East Asia
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9000 BCE
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late Gravettian
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late Gravettian plains complex (Mezine Kostienki)
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Magosian
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Natufian
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Khandivili
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10 000 BCE Holocene began glacial ended (10,000BCE)
glacial at its coldest (18,000BCE)
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Magdalenian Solutrean Epigravettian
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Epigravettian
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Ibero-maurusian
Sebilian
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Lupembian
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Kebarian Athlitian
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pre-Jomon ceramic(Japan)
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20 000 BCE
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Gravettian
Aurignacian (art)
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Pavlovian
Aurignacian (art)
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Aurignacian (art)
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30 000 BCE
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Chatelperronian
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Szeletian
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Aterian
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Stillbayan
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Emirian
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Angara culture
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Sen-Doki
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40 000 BCE
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Amoudian
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50 000 BCE
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Mousterians (earliest graves)
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Mousterian
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Mousterian
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Fauresmithian
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Jabroudian
Mousterian
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Soanian
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Ngandong culture
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80 000 BCE
latest glacial began (95000BCE)
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Micoquian
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Micoquian
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Mousteroid
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Ordos culture
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100 000 BCE
glacial ended (135,000BCE)
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Upper Acheulean
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Upper Acheulean
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Sangoen
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Acheulean
Soanian
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Fen Culture
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200 000 BCE glacial began (195,000 BCE)
glacial ended (240,000BCE) glacial began (285,000BCE)
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Tayacian
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Acheulean
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Acheulean
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Acheulean
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300 000 BCE
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middle Acheulean
Clactonian
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middle Acheulean
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Pre-Soanian
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500 000 BCE
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Lower Acheulean
worked pebbles
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Lower Acheulean
worked pebbles
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Lower Acheulean
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Padjitanian
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1 000 000
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worked pebbles
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worked pebbles
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worked pebbles
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lower Acheulian
Olduwan
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worked pebbles
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2 000 000
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Period & Climate
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Western Europe
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Central Europe and Eastern Europe
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North Africa, West Africa and Sahara
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Central Africa, South and East Africa
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Middle East
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South Asia, India and Central Asia
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Far East and South-East Asia
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