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Homo erectus, moves out of Africa and begins to spread through Europe and Asia
Humans are by this time living in Britain, in what is now Norfolk, and are making stone tools
Neanderthal man is by now well established in Europe and Asia, probably having evolved after his ancestors left Africa
The Middle Palaeolithic era covers the period when Neanderthals and modern humans coexist in Europe and Asia
Neanderthals decline in numbers, first in Asia and then in Europe
Palaeolithic hunter-gatherers use mammoth tusks and bones to support hide-covered tents at Dolni Vestonice (in the Czech Republic)
The earliest known Venus figurine, with emphasized sexual features, is carved near the Hohle Fels cave in Germany from the tusk of a woolly mammoth
Rhinoceroses, lions and mammoth feature on the walls of the Chauvet cave, in southern France
In the Cosquer cave near Marseilles, with its entrance now far below sea level, a hand print is made
A Stone Age sculptor shapes a timeless image of female fecundity in the famous Willendorf Venus
A Brassempouy, in France, a Venus figurine is carved which is the oldest known example to have facial features
A bison figurine is carved in mammoth ivory in the region of Zaraysk, southeast of Moscow
The walls of the complex of caves at Lascaux in France are covered, over the years, with a vast number of paintings of animals
The walls of Altamira, an extensive cave in Spain, are decorated with paintings and engraved images of horses, deer and above all bison
The neolithic town of Khirokitia in Cyprus has a paved public street with lanes leading off to courtyards of round tent-like houses
A passage grave with a superb corbelled dome is constructed on the Île Longue off the southern coast of Brittany
Oxen are the first draught animals, in use at this time in the Middle East and in Europe
In Mesopotamia, and on the grass steppes of southern Russia, oxen are used to pull heavy loads on sledges
Olives are cultivated in Crete and will provide, in the form of olive oil, one of the main staples of Mediterranean trade
A neolithic herdsman dies high in the Alps - and is perfectly preserved in ice
The sculptors of the Cyclades produce stylized and formal figures, mainly female, in white marble
Wheels are in use on carts, particularly where wood is easily available and the ground rough - as in the forests of Europe
The language of a single tribe in eastern Europe, as recently as 3000 BC, is the ancestor of all modern Indo-European languages
A small neolithic community builds a village at Skara Brae in the Orkneys, of stone houses with built-in stone furniture
A superb passage grave is built at Newgrange in Ireland
