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A short settlement in 1725. Intermittent settlement during the 19th and 20th centuries. [119] East Pacific: Juan Fernández Islands: 1750: San Juan Bautista: Settled by the Spanish to prevent its use by foreign powers and pirates. Destroyed in 1751 by a tsunami but soon rebuilt. [120] South Atlantic: Falkland Islands: 1764: Puerto Soledad
North American archaeological periods divides the history of pre-Columbian North America into a number of named successive eras or periods, from the earliest-known human habitation through to the early Colonial period which followed the European colonization of the Americas.
[80] [81] This is supported by a date of 50,000–60,000 years ago for the oldest evidence of settlement in Australia, [69] [82] around 40,000 years ago for the oldest human remains, [69] the earliest humans artifacts which are at least 65,000 years old [83] and the extinction of the Australian megafauna by humans between 46,000 and 15,000 ...
7500 BC: Earliest supposed date for the domestication of the cat. [111] 7200 BC: First human settlement in Amman, Jordan; ĘżAin Ghazal Neolithic settlement was built spanning over an area of 15 hectares (37 acres). [112] 7176 BC: Earliest confirmed Miyake event, an extreme peak of solar activity which showers the solar system with cosmic rays ...
Map of early human migrations based on the Out of Africa theory; figures are in thousands of years ago (kya). [1]The peopling of the Americas began when Paleolithic hunter-gatherers (Paleo-Indians) entered North America from the North Asian Mammoth steppe via the Beringia land bridge, which had formed between northeastern Siberia and western Alaska due to the lowering of sea level during the ...
Earliest archaeological traces date back to 900–600 BC, with major expansion of the settlement occurring around 250–400 AD. [28] Ethnohistoric documents claim the founding of Nojpetén in the mid-15th century AD. [29] Izamal: Maya civilization, then New Spain Mexico: 700–450 BC [30] Also known as the Yellow City.
The earliest appearance of anatomically modern people in Europe has been dated to 45,000 BC, referred to as the Early European modern humans. Some locally developed transitional cultures ( Uluzzian in Italy and Greece, Altmühlian in Germany, Szeletian in Central Europe and Châtelperronian in the southwest) use clearly Upper Paleolithic ...
Little is directly known about the societal or political structure of Olmec society. Although it is assumed by most researchers that the colossal heads and several other sculptures represent rulers, nothing has been found like the Maya stelae which name specific rulers and provide the dates of their rule.