Prehistory to 600 BCE Timeline

4 Million BCE to 100,000 BCE Paleolithic Age Australopithecines Hominids "Lucy" (3,000,000 BCE) Homo Erectus (1,500,000 BCE- first hominids to migrate from Africa) Time Line of World History Prehistory-500 BCE (Notable approximate dates) 100,000 BCE - 40,000 BCE Homo Sapiens (Neanderthals) Development of Tools Development of Fire Development of Language Human Migration to Oceania (Australia and New Zealand) (50,000 BCE) 40,000 BCE- 10,000 BCE Homo Sapiens- Sapiens (CroMagnon) Modern "man" Cave Paintings [Lascaux) (Altamira) Peoples reach end of South America (9500 BCE) End of Last Ice Age (10,000 BCE) 8,000 BCE-3,000 BCE Neolithic Age Agricultural Revolution Proto-Neolithic Societies Jomon/Japan Chinook/NW Americas. Yangshao/China (5000-3000 BCE) Natufian (Levant) Jericho Catal Hayuk (Anatolia Olmecs (3000 BCE-400 BCE) Copper Age (4500 BCE-3500 BCE) Bronze Age (3500-1200 BCE) Development of Writing (3500 BCE) Cuneiform Hieroglyphics 3000 BCE-500 BCE Indo-European Migrations 13000 BCE 1,000 BCE) Bantu Migrations 12000 BCX-1000 BCE) Mesopotamian Empires (3000 BCE-1750 BCE) Harappan-Mojenjo Daro (1000 BCE 1500 BCE) Ancient Egyptian Kingdoms (2700 BCE-1005 acr Xia Dynasty (China) 2000-1600 BCE) Aryan Invasion in India 12000 B Vedic Age in India (2500 BCE-300 BCEL Hebrews-Ur to Palestine (1850 BCE) Hebrews to Egyρί (1700 BCE) Shang Dynasty 2766 BCE-1122 BCE Hebrews back to Palestine (1300 BCE) Zhou Dynasty Western/Lastern Zhou/Spring/Autum (1122 BCE 256 BCE) Minoans in Crete (2200 1100 BCE) Mycenae Civilization (1600-1100 BCE) Iran Age 1200 BCE-1000 BCE Teotihuacan (Mesoamerica) (1000 BCE-500 BCE) Mohica & Chauvin (Peru) (1200 BCE-500 BCE Etruscans Rule Rome (GSO BCE) Babylonian Capt (586-139 BCE)