| A MAP OF TIME (All dates B.P.: Before the Present) |
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| 250,000–200,000 | Earliest Homo sapiens in Africa |
| 100,000–60,000 | Beginnings of migration out of Africa |
| 70,000 | Human entry into eastern Asia |
| 60,000–40,000 | Human entry into Australia (first use of boats) |
| 45,000 | Human entry into Europe |
| 30,000 | Extinction of large mammals in Australia |
| 30,000–15,000 | Human entry into the Americas |
| 30,000–17,000 | Cave art in Europe |
| 25,000 | Extinction of Neanderthals |
| 16,000–10,000 | End of last Ice Age (global warming) |
| 12,000–10,000 | Earliest agricultural revolutions |
| 11,000 | Extinction of large mammals in North America |
| After 8,000 | First chiefdoms in Mesopotamia |
| 6,000–5,000 | Beginning of domestication of corn in southern Mexico |
| 3,500–1,000 | Austronesian migration to Pacific islands and Madagascar |
| 1,000–800 | Human entry into New Zealand (last major region to receive human settlers) |