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.

 

 

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.