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.