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200000-50000
Paintings of Bhimbetka rock shelters in India. Some evidence points to artwork belonging to Homo erectus
40000
Oldest known cave paintings
40000
Cro-Magnon colonization of Europe
35000
The oldest known tally stick (the Lebombo Bone)
35000
Oldest known figurative art (Venus of Hohle Fels), age of the Aurignacian culture
32000
Aurignacian culture begins in Europe
30000
approximate age of Haplogroup X (mtDNA) and Haplogroup I (mtDNA). First domestic dogs, A herd of reindeer is slaughtered and butchered by humans in the Vezere Valley in what is today France.
29000
Extinction of Homo neanderthalensis
28500
New Guinea is populated by colonists from Asia or Australia
28000-20000
Gravettian period in Europe. Harpoons, needles, and saws invented
26000
People around the world use fibers to make baby carriers, clothes, bags, baskets, and nets
26000 -20000
Last Glacial Maximum; approximate age of Haplogroup H (mtDNA)
25000
First colonization of North America
25000
A hamlet consisting of huts built of rocks and of mammoth bones is founded in what is now Dolni Vestonice in Moravia in the Czech Republic. This is the oldest human permanent settlement that has yet been found by archaeologists.