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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. 230,000 years ago |
| | Humans evolve who can be classified as Homo sapiens - among them Neanderthal Man | |
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| c. 150,000 years ago |
| | A possible second migration from Africa begins, involving at some time the ancestors of modern man, Homo sapiens sapiens | |
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| c. 45,000 years ago |
| | Neanderthals carve a flute from the leg bone of a young bear, in the region that is now Slovenia | |
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| c. 35,000 years ago |
| | Palaeolithic hunter-gatherers use mammoth tusks and bones to support hide-covered tents at Dolni Vestonice (in the Czech Republic) | |
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| c. 35,000 years ago |
| | The Neanderthals vanish quite suddenly from the fossil record, leaving modern humans as the only surviving members of our species | |
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