Human Origins & the Ice Age
Explore Human Origins & the Ice Age on Ever-When, an interactive timeline of history from the Big Bang to the present day.
Key events on this timeline
- Emergence of Homo sapiens (300000 BCE)
- Out of Africa migration (70000 BCE)
- Australopithecus afarensis ('Lucy') (3200000 BCE)
- Neanderthals emerge (400000 BCE)
- Split between humans and chimpanzees (7000000 BCE)
- Control of fire by hominins (1000000 BCE)
- First stone tools (Oldowan) (2600000 BCE)
- Neolithic (Agricultural) Revolution begins (10000 BCE)
- Homo erectus emerges (1900000 BCE)
- Last Glacial Maximum (22000 BCE)
- Göbekli Tepe constructed (9500 BCE)
- Extinction of the Neanderthals (40000 BCE)
- Lascaux Cave paintings (17000 BCE)
- Chauvet Cave paintings (32000 BCE)
- Domestication of dogs (15000 BCE)
- Homo habilis emerges (2400000 BCE)
- Settlement of Australia (65000 BCE)
- First settlement of the Americas (16000 BCE)
- Earliest cave art (Sulawesi) (45000 BCE)
- Pleistocene Ice Age (2580000 BCE)
- Denisovans inhabit Asia (300000 BCE)
- Altamira Cave paintings (14000 BCE)
- Venus of Willendorf carved (28000 BCE)
- Megafauna extinction in the Americas (12000 BCE)
- Homo heidelbergensis appears (700000 BCE)
- First pottery (16000 BCE)
- Earliest modern human burials (100000 BCE)
- Hohle Fels Venus carved (38000 BCE)
- Younger Dryas (10900 BCE)
- Homo floresiensis, the island 'hobbits' (100000 BCE)