300,000 BP to 250,000 BP

300,000 BP to 250,000 BP   A prehistoric timeline of events 

280,000 BP, New Zealand: A super volcano erupted in Matahina Ignimbrie of the Taup volcanic zone on the North Island. The zone may be called the Haroharo Caldera. The ejeta was about 120 km cubed. 

 95,000 BP to 50,000 BP

94,000 BP: Proto Cro Magnon skeleton found near Nazareth dates back to about this time and makes it look as though Homo Sapien Preceded Neanderthal in the region.                                          

90,000 BC: Fossilized bones found in caves Skhul and Qafzeh, in modern Israel, are of  anatomically  modern humans.

90,000 BP: Fossilized bones found in caves of Skhul and Qafzeh of Nazareth in Lower Galilee thought to be of modern human beings were found with artifacts belonging to the Mousterian culture and the bones may have been of Neanderthal.

82,000 BP: Hints of modern speech for this time. Johanna Nichols of UC at Cal suggests that it must have begun well before 100,000 years ago.

~ Neanderthals may have live in Spain as recently as this. (Cidron)

~ Russia: There is strong evidence that modern humans were living on the banks of the Don River.

~ Marks a period of overlap between Neanderthals and Homo Sapiens.

~ Ukraine: Strong evidence for human habitation here by this date.

~ Evidence suggests that the spear thrower/atlatl was used at this time.

~ East and Southeast Asia: Ordos Culture.

 

 

77,000 BP: In the Blombos cave in South Africa stones are engraved with patterns of lines either decorative or practical as, say, a form of tally.

74,000 BP, Indonasia: A volcanic eruption took place in Sumatra in he Lake Toba zone of North Sumatra and called the Lake Toba eruption. The approximate ejecta bulk volume was 2,8oo sq km. The ejecta included between 2200 and 4400 of H2SO4, a lot of sulfur.

67 Mya: An extraterrestrial object struck the Earth and marked the end of the Cretaceous Period an the beginning of the Tertiary Period.

 

 

60,000 BP: Neanderthals may have practiced cannibalism in Spain as recently as this.              

~ Evidence from about this time has shown an increased human population.          `                    

~ Evidence strongly suggests that the ''first'' human inhabitants of Australia make the crossing from Southeast Asia. 

                

50,000 BP to 30,000 BP: Neanderthals were declining in numbers, first in Asia and then in Europe.

~ Spain: Neanderthals may have lived in what is now Spain as recently as this (Cidron).

~ West Asia, including the Middle East: Jabroudian culture.

~ East and southeast Asia: Ngandong culture.

~ Indonesia: About this time there was a volcanic eruption at what is now Lake Maninjau in Sumatra.

  

  

50,000,000 BP About this time there was a massive explosive volcanic eruption near what is now Bennett Lake, British Columbia, Yukon, Canada.

 

 

 185,000 BP to 140,000 BP

180,000 BP: Massive eruption of Newberry caldera in what is now central Oregon, USA.

170,000 BP: By this time humans wore clothing. (Wikipedia)
150,000 BP to 130,000 BP: Egypt: Some Stone Age tools most often called Aterian have been found and dated to this time frame of Last Interglacial Period of the Middle Stone Age.
~ A possible second migration from Africa begins, perhaps at some during the process involving the ancestors of modern man, homo sapiens sapiens.  

145,000 BP to 30,000 BP: Micoquien (?), an early middle Paleolithic industry.

130,000 BP: By this time Neanderthal man is well established in Europe and Asia, "probably having evolved after his ancestors left Africa."

125,000 BP, Sri Lanka: There is strong evidence of human settlements here at this time.

122,000 BP: Melt back of ice. Last major peaking, yielding seas well above 2000 AD levels.

120,000 BP: This is a time in the middle of the Paleolithic era when Neanderthals and modern humans coexisted in Europe and Asia.

100,000 BP: Abundant evidence of human beings like us physically like us populating the Earth. There were probably many of us here several 100,000 years before this time.

 

 400,000 BP to 350,000 BP

400,000 BP: Neanderthals probably lived in Europe at this time. There are hints that the may have in that region twice that many years ago. Europe may have been continuously for 100,000 years

~ Sri Lanka: Sri Lanka was occupied by modern humans by this time.

338,000 BP, New Zealand: On the North Island in it's Taupo volcanic zone the super volcano  Tupo Nui erupted ejecting about 2,000 cubic km of stuff.

~ There was also an eruption in Kyushu, Japan. Eruptions continued at this same place for a total of four large eruptions between 300,000 BP and 80,000 BP.

230,000 BP to 185,000 BP

230,000 BP to 185,000 BP

230,000 BP: Humans who can be classified as homo sapiens in evidence, among them Neanderthal man.

 

212,000 BP to 17,000 BP: Evidence of Solutrian people in eastern France, in Spain, and England during this period. Most of their articles found have been dated from around 21,000 BP. Practically no evidence of their existence is found dating to after around 17,000 BP.

200 Mya: Pangea existed as present continents united.

~ Gigantopithecus, after flourishing for at least six million years, disappears. (Natural History 11/91)

~ Greece: An excellent Old Stone Age axe dating to about this time was found.

~ USA: In a site near Barstow, California Stone Age tools were found suggesting approximately this time.

 

100,000 BP to 50,000 BP

100,000 BP to 50,000 BP

 

 100,00 BP: Abundant evidence of human beings like us existed at this time, but there is now some evidence that we were here by 400,000 BP.

 

 

94,000 BP: Proto Cromagnon skeleton found near Nazureth dates back to about this time. This suggests that Homo Sapien preceded Neanderthal in the region,

92,000 BP: A proto Cromagnon skeleton dating to abut this time was found near Nazareth by Helen Vallados,

90,000 BP: Fossilized bones found in caves of Skhul and Qafzeh of Nazareth in Lower Galilee thought to be of modern human beings were found with artifacts belonging to the Mousterian culture and the bones may have been of Neanderthal. 

90,000 BP: Dating to this time there are fossilized bones found in the caves of Skhul and Qafzeh in what is now modern Israel. These bones are of anatomically modern humans.

82,000 BP: The Period of overlap between Neanderthal and Homo Sapiens.

~ Strong evidence of modern human habitation of Ukraine by this date.

~ Evidence suggests that use of the spear thrower, atlatl, was active.

~ Hints of modern speech. Johanna Nichols of UC suggests that it must have been well before 100,000 BP. What are these suggestions and hints?

78,000 BP Marked the last of a series of massive Pleistocene eruptions of the Newberry volcano in what is now central Oregon, USA. It continues to erupt and did so in about 55,000 and 50,000 BP. It seems that the most serious recent eruption occurred about 720 AD.

77,000 BP: In the Blombos cave in South Africa, stones are engraved with patterns of lines, either decorative or practical(practical as in as in a form of tally)

75,000 BP: A ''collar'' of beads was found in a cave in South Africa dating to about this time. Archaeologists discovered 91 shells the size of peas with holes bored them in Bolombos cave on the Indian ocean coast. The discovery was made in a layer of sediment from the Middle Stone age and contained red ochre indicating that they were covered with pigment.

74,000 BP: Toba super-volcanoe eruption on the Indonesian island of Sumatra produced a prolonged deforestation in South Asia. This has been called the Lake Toba eruption. The approximate ejecta bulk volume was 2,800 sq km. This ejecta included between 2,200 and 4,400 of H2S04.

62,000 BP: It seems as though that in 1990 AD this was the best populag guess at the existence of the earliest true man. I suspect that 300,000 BP may be a better guess.

 

60,000 BP: About this time the evidence suggests that the first human inhabitants made the crossing from southeast Asia. However, human resistance to this happening may be stronger than ----

~ Neanderthals may have practiced cannibalism this recently.

 

 

 

 

50,000 BP: Horseback riding dates to this time. 

~ Neanderthals decline in number, first in Asia, then in Europe.

~ Indonesia: About this time there was a volcanic eruption at what is now lake Maninjau in Sumatra.

~ Neanderthals may have lived in Spain as recently as this (Cidron).

~ New Zealand: About this time there was a volcanic eruption at Rotoiti Ignimbrite on North Island.

 150,000 BP to 100,000 BP

 

 

150,000 BP: Egypt: There are stone tools found which have been called Aterian. Most seem to date from about 150,000 to 130,000 BP. However similar finds continue until about 20,000 BP.

 

135,000,000 BP: Flowering plants appear during the Cretaceous period and diversify into the major flowering plant families we know today.

132,000,000 BP: What we have called the Pillars of  Hercules and the Gates of Atlantis were open and the Atlantic ocean penetrated deep into what is now the Sahara desert.

130,000 BP, Finland: There is strong evidence that there are people living in Finland by this time.

125,000 BP: There is strong evidence of human settlement in Sri Lanka by this time.

121,000 BP  to 44(41?),000 BP: Spans a time the Denisovan/Denosovian people were active on Earth.

~ Fine stone-work dates to this time.

 

 

120,000 BP to 35,000 BP: The Middle Palaeolithic era covers the period when neanderthals and modern humans coexist in Europe and Asia 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

100,000 BP: Egypt: Some structures at Wadi Halfa near the border with Sudan were dared to about this time by Waldemar Chmielewski (?). They were oval and sunken into the earth a little less than 2 feet and were lined with flat sandstone.