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Stone Age

200,000 BCE

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c. 200,000 BCE
Human Evolution
Siberia and Asia

Denisovans in Asia

Denisovans, a sister group of Neanderthals known mainly from DNA and a few fossils from Denisova Cave in Siberia, live across Asia.

Why it mattered

Their genes survive in many present-day people, especially in Oceania.

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c. 300,000 BCEScience

Earliest Homo sapiens fossils

North Africa

c. 300,000 BCEHuman Evolution

Homo naledi in South Africa

South Africa

c. 170,000 BCETechnology

Clothing and tailored hides

Africa

c. 160,000 BCEAgriculture

Shellfish harvesting at Pinnacle Point

Southern Africa

c. 120,000 BCESociety

Deliberate burial of the dead

Levant

c. 100,000 BCEArt & Culture

Pigment workshops

Southern Africa