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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
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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
(90
km)
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