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.

 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.