Archaeology
for all
| 40,000 years ago |
Homo sapiens sapiens
begins settlement of arctic latitudes of the Old World. By this time,
humans are living in Australia. |
| 15,000 B.C. |
First human settlement of
the American (?) |
| 10,000 B.C. |
Final end of the last ice
Age glaciations. |
| 8000 B.C. |
Food production and animal
domestication well established in the Near East |
| 6000 B.C. or earlier |
Agriculture in Mesoamerica
(Tehuacan and other locations) |
| 4000 B.C. |
Ur in Mesopotamia, a
sizable settlement, near city. |
| 3000 B.C. |
Ancient Egyptian and
Sumerian civilizations emerge in the Near East. |
| 2700 B.C. |
Harappan civilization,
Indus Valley, Pakistan |
| 1600 B.C. |
Cretan and Mycenaean
civilization in Mediterranean Shang civilization in China |
| 1200 B.C. |
Olmec civilization in
Mesoamerica. |
| A.D. 1 |
Teotihuacan, 200 B.C. to
A.D. 750 Maya civilization flourishes in Mesoamerican lowlands (before
1000 B.C. to A.D. 900 and beyond) |
| Modern Times |
A.D. 1492; Columbus lands
in the New world Aztec and Inca civilizations flourish in Mexico and Peru |