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  Asia timeline
     
c. 1.7 million years ago
 
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Homo erectus, moves out of Africa and begins to spread through Europe and Asia      
c. 500,000 years ago
 
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Peking man shelters in caves south of modern Beijing, leaving many scraps of evidence of his way of life     
c. 500,000 years ago
 
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Fire is used in China by Peking man, and may have been in use much earlier in Africa      
c. 230,000 years ago
 
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Humans evolve who can be classified as Homo sapiens - among them Neanderthal Man      
c. 150,000 years ago
 
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A possible second migration from Africa begins, involving at some time the ancestors of modern man, Homo sapiens sapiens      
c. 90,000 years ago
 
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Fossilized bones found in the caves of Skhul and Qafzeh, in modern Israel, are of anatomically modern humans