Timeline: Paleolithic and Neolithic Age | Timetoast

Period: 200,000 BCE to 200,000 BCE

Paleolithic Age 2,000,000 BCE

Paleolithic Age/ Old Stone Age beings!
Period: 28,000 BCE to 28,000 BCE

28000 BCE

First evidence of paleolithic religious beliefs
Period: 28,000 BCE to 22,000 BCE

28,000 BCE - 20,000 BCE

People lived in cages or simple huts
Period: 28,000 BCE to 20,000 BCE

28,000 BCE - 20,000 BCE

Oldowan Stage - development of pebble tools
Period: 28,000 BCE to 20,000 BCE

28,000 BCE - 20,000 BCE

Cheulean Stage - hand axes and cleaving tools are excavated
Period: 28,000 BCE to 20,000 BCE

28,000 BCE - 20,000 BCE

Middle Paleolithic - Use of fire begins in weapons. Also, widespread fires
Period: 28,000 BCE to 20,000 BCE

28,000 BCE - 20,000 BCE

Lomelcian Stage - Early hammering and other rock chopping tools
Period: 20,000 BCE to 20,000 BCE

Neolithic Age 20,000 BCE

Cave painting in Spain and France
Period: 10,000 BCE to 10,000 BCE

10,000 BCE

Beginnings of agriculture in Middle East
Period: 8000 BCE to 8000 BCE

8,000 BCE

Ovens are applied to pottery production
Period: 7700 BCE to 7700 BCE

7,700 BCE

1st wheats in the fertile crescent
Period: 7500 BCE to 7500 BCE

7,500 BCE

Long distance trade in obsidian begins
Period: 7000 BCE to 6500 BCE

7,000 BCE - 6,500 BCE

Domestication of goats and pigs
Period: 6200 BCE to 6200 BCE

6,200 BCE

1st Copper smelting in Anatolia
Period: 6000 BCE to 6000 BCE

6,000

First irrigation
Period: 4800 BCE to 4800 BCE

4,800

Neolithic Village of Banpo in China built
Period: 4500 BCE to 4500 BCE

4,500 BCE

Neolithic Village of Banpo is inhabited
Period: 4300 BCE to 4300 BCE

4,300 BCE

First megalithic in Europe
Period: 3000 BCE to 3000 BCE

3,000 BCE

Digging in Aubrey; Stonehenge phase
Period: 2500 BCE to 2000 BCE

2,500 BCE - 2,000 BCE

The Balriiuaran of Clava is built
Period: 2000 BCE to 2000 BCE

2,000 BCE

Bronze Age begins.. ending of Neolithic Age