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.