In Europe, the Pavlovian & Aurignacian cultures.

20,000c - Settlement in Franchthi Cave in Pelopponese, Greece, begins.

In Willendorf, Austria, the high-statuette Venus (Universal Mother) of Willendorf was carved from limestone.

In Bassempouy, Grotte du Pape, Brassempouy, Landes, France, the mini-bust Venus Bassempouy was carved from ivory.

22,000c - Early European Hominids Neanderthals Mousterian (Homo neanderthalensis) are driven to extinction by the influx of Aterian Cro-Magnons (Homo sapien).

23,000c - In Petřkovice, Ostrava, Czech Republic, the statue Venus of Petřkovice was made.

26,000 to 20,000 – From France, the Gravettian culture spreads across central Europe and Russia.

27,000c - In Cosquer cave, Cap Margiou, France, the older inhabitants made the first set of wall paintings, depicting hand stencils and related things.

In Africa, Stillbayan & Aterian cultures.

In Asia, Angara, Sen-Doki, & Emirian culture.

In Hohlenstein-Stadel, Germany, the Lion-Human sculpture was created.

Early European Hominids Neanderthals Mousterian (Homo neanderthalensis) become threatened with extinction by the influx of Aterian Cro-Magnons (Homo sapiens).

30,000c - In Azerbaijan, Gobustan Culture begins.

32,000 to 21,000 – In Europe and southwest Asia, the Aurignacian culture flourished, as a contemporary with the Périgordian, a transitory culture between earlier Châtelperronian and later Gravettian cultures.

33,000 to 27,000 - In central and south France & north Spain, the Châtelperronian culture derives from earlier Neanderthal Mousterian culture and newer Cro Magnon Alterian, and represents an overlap between the cultures and hominids.

35,000 - In Azerbaijan, the caves of Zar, Yataghyeri, Damjili and Taghlar caves are inhabited.

Upper Paleolithic Age, AKA Reindeer Age 40th through 11th Millennia, BCE

50,000 – In Asia, Jabroudian, Ngandong, & Soanian cultures.

100,000c - Out of southern and eastern Africa emerge the first anatomically modern humans, and eventually move outwards from there.

300,000c - Hominids, Mousterians, in Europe.

Middle Paleolithic Age 120th through 41st Millennia, BCE

2,500,000c - On African continent, earliest recognizable form of human being ('Hominid'), Homo Habilis ('Human skilled').

Prehistoric periods Lower Paleothic Age, AKA Prelithic Age 2,500th through 120th Millennia, BCE

2.1.9 End of 1st Century, BCE, & Beginning of 1st Century, CE.

1.3 Upper Paleolithic Age, AKA Reindeer Age.

1.2.1 120th through 41st Millennia, BCE.

1.1 Lower Paleothic Age, AKA Prelithic Age.

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