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S U M M A R Y
                           TIME  M A R K E R S                     A R T E F A C T S  PROBABLY  R E Q U I R I N G  K N O T S
             TIME  GEOL. EPOCH  HUMAN SPECIES   AGE   CULTURE   ART   DWELLINGS  BEADS & CLOTHING  TOOLS & WEAPONS  SEA VOYAGES
            'OOOyogo
               6           Homo  sapiens
                           Modern      Neolithic                                                     Boats,  Oars
               8
               10   Holocene           Mesolithic   Magdalenian
                   Pleistocene          Upper
                                       Palaeolithic
               15                                                         Costumes  depicted  ?Nets
                                              Magdalenian  Representational Many Shelters   Cordage
               20
                                                         Figures                         Many  Lances
               25                       Upper     Aterian                   Awls  (Aust.)             Solomons
               30          Cro-Magnons   Palaeolithic  Aurignacian        Blind  Pendants  ?  Snares  (180  km)
                              Neanderthals   Middle  Chatelperronian   Geometric
               40                      Palaeolithic      Figures   Mammoth   Many  Beads  Hafted  Tools
               50                              Mousterian   and  Cupules  Bone Shelters
               60                                                                                     Australia
                                                                                                         km)
                                                                                                       (90
               80           Modern               Aterian
              100                                                            ? Awls     Shafted  Weapons
                                        Middle
              150                      Palaeolithic   Mousterian
                              Neanderthals  Lower
              200                             Acheulian   Markings           ? Thongs
                           ?  Modern   Palaeolithic                 ^
              250
              300          Archaic                       Crayons    7
                              Homo  erectus                     Bilzingsleben   Beads  & Pendants   ?  Lance
              ■100         Homo sapiens                         Terra  Amata
              500                                                   ?                     ? Bolas
              600
              800                                     Non-Utilitarian
              1000                                      Collections
              1500         Homo  habilis      Acheulian
                   Pleistocene
              2000           Homo  erectus  Lower
              2500   Pliocene   Homo  habilis  Palaeolithic   Oldovvan
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