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Mini Ice Age: Libya

The document summarizes important periods and events in human prehistory and history from around 2 million BCE to the present. It outlines the Lower, Middle, and Upper Paleolithic eras and associated archaeological cultures. It then discusses the origins of some of the earliest cities like Jericho and Catal Huyuk. The document then chronicles key developments and migrations of humans across various regions of the world at different points in time from around 80,000 BCE to the present day, including the appearance and spread of modern humans, cave paintings, advances in seafaring, the rise and fall of civilizations, and periods of climate change.

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Mini Ice Age: Libya

The document summarizes important periods and events in human prehistory and history from around 2 million BCE to the present. It outlines the Lower, Middle, and Upper Paleolithic eras and associated archaeological cultures. It then discusses the origins of some of the earliest cities like Jericho and Catal Huyuk. The document then chronicles key developments and migrations of humans across various regions of the world at different points in time from around 80,000 BCE to the present day, including the appearance and spread of modern humans, cave paintings, advances in seafaring, the rise and fall of civilizations, and periods of climate change.

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The Paleolithic Age

Lower Paleolithic 2,000,000 100,000 BCE


Middle Paleolithic 100,000 40,000 BCE
Upper Paleolithic 40,000 10,000 BCE
Aurignacian 34,000 23,000 BCE
Gravettian 28,000 22,000 BCE
Solutrean 22,000 18,000 BCE
Magdalenian 18,000 10,000 BCE
Mesolithic 10,000 8000 BCE
Neolithic 8000 2000 BCE

Jericho City 9500-9000 BC 10 acres with about population of 500

Catal Huyuk 7500-5700 BC

80,000 B.C. --------- Modern humans appear in southern Africa (judged from
80-40,000 B.C. ---- jewelry production)
40,000 B.C. --------- Several catastrophic climatic changes decimate human
39,000 B.C. -------- population
28,000 B.C. --------- Small group of modern humans cross Red Sea to
16,000 B.C. --------- Yemen
13,000 B.C. --------- Artistic cave paintings appear at diverse locations
12,000 B.C. --------- Small carvings of human females appear from Europe
10,000 B.C. --------- through Asia
9,000 B.C. --------- The climate begins to warm
Advance of glaciers stops, and sea levels begin to rise
Flooding over vast areas of the earth intensifies
8,000 B.C. ---------
Development of reliable ocean navigation opened up

6,000 B.C. ----------- the world around


5,500 - 6,000 B.C.-- Mini Ice Age lasts a few hundred years. Seafarers from
Morocco and northern
6,000-3,500 B.C.----
Spain explore entire west coast of Europe. Caucasian
4,000 B.C. ----------- race appears in Libya
1,700 B.C. -----------
1,420 B.C. ----------- Ice Age mega fauna goes extinct. Societies become
more centrally directed.
1,290 –1,180 B.C. --
Specialized trades expand, longevity increases. Ireland
1,100 B.C. --------
597 A.D. ---------- to Scandinavia colonized.
600-700 A.D. ----- Bering Strait land bridge drowned, halting migration of
635 A.D. ---------- humans and animals
1000-1350 A.D. ---- Language becomes more organized and developed (See
1400-1860 A.D. ---- Linguistics)
1870 – Present –--- Migrations out of North Africa to points east and north
(as desert expands)
The Holocene Maximum warm period
Peteroborough, Canada petroglyphs carved (See
Bronze Age)
Isle of Thera volcano erupts, devastating Crete & other
areas
Major attacks by Sea Peoples on Egypt (attempt to
reestablish Goddess religion)
Hebrews leave Egypt
Benedictine clerics expand Christian conversion
activity in Europe
Horsecreek Petroglyph carved in West Virginia ? (See
Horsecreek)
Roman Catholic sponsored Invention of modern
European languages expanded
Medieval Warm Period
Little Ice Age
Industrial Age Global Warming

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