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This is a list of dates associated with the prehistoric peopling of the world (first known presence of Homo sapiens). The list is divided into four categories, Middle Paleolithic (before 50,000 years ago), Upper Paleolithic (50,000 to 12,500 years ago), Holocene (12,500 to 500 years ago) and Modern (Age of Sail and modern exploration).
Homo sapiens are believed to have emerged in Africa about 300,000 years ago, based in part on thermoluminescence dating of artifacts and remains from Jebel Irhoud, Morocco, published in 2017. [note 4] [24] The Florisbad Skull from Florisbad, South Africa, dated to about 259,000 years ago, has also been classified as early Homo sapiens.
Homo sapiens: 2000 Tabon Caves, Philippines: National Museum of Anthropology [140] Ust'-Ishim man: 45 Homo sapiens: 2008 Russia: Nikolai Peristov Kents Cavern 4 maxilla: 43.5±2.5 Homo sapiens: 1927 UK: Zlatý kůň woman: 43 Homo sapiens: 1950 Czech Republic: Tianyuan man: 40.5±1.5 Homo sapiens: 2007 China: Amud 1 [141] 41 [142] Homo ...
Early Homo appears in East Africa, speciating from australopithecine ancestors. The Lower Paleolithic is defined by the beginning of use of stone tools. Australopithecus garhi was using stone tools at about 2.5 Ma. Homo habilis is the oldest species given the designation Homo, by Leakey et al. in 1964.
The hominoids are descendants of a common ancestor.. Homo sapiens is a distinct species of the hominid family of primates, which also includes all the great apes. [1] Over their evolutionary history, humans gradually developed traits such as bipedalism, dexterity, and complex language, [2] as well as interbreeding with other hominins (a tribe of the African hominid subfamily), [3] indicating ...
The spotty fossil record has left unclear the details of how Homo sapiens spread through Europe and what role our species played in the extinction of Neanderthals, who disappeared roughly 40,000 ...
Skull of Cro-Magnon 1. Cro-Magnons or European early modern humans (EEMH) were the first early modern humans (Homo sapiens) to settle in Europe, migrating from western Asia, continuously occupying the continent possibly from as early as 56,800 years ago.
New research shows that Homo sapiens traveled from Africa to East Asia and toward Australia up to 86,000 years ago. The discovery also suggests that modern humans have lived in the region for at ...