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| c. 1.7 million years ago |
| | Homo erectus, moves out of Africa and begins to spread through Europe and Asia | |
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| c. 500,000 years ago |
| | Peking man shelters in caves south of modern Beijing, leaving many scraps of evidence of his way of life | |
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| c. 500,000 years ago |
| | Fire is used in China by Peking man, and may have been in use much earlier in Africa | |
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| c. 130,000 years ago |
| | Neanderthal man is by now well established in Europe and Asia, probably having evolved after his ancestors left Africa | |
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| c. 120,000 to 35,000 years ago |
| | The Middle Palaeolithic era covers the period when Neanderthals and modern humans coexist in Europe and Asia | |
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| c. 90,000 years ago |
| | Fossilized bones found in the caves of Skhul and Qafzeh, in modern Israel, are of anatomically modern humans | |
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