B.C.

35,000

Upper Paleolithic Period (Later Old Stone Age.)  Hand Prints and the first cave paintings are made in Europe.

30,000

Asian people arrive in North America.

25,000

Venus of Willendorf is carved.  Small sculptures are made of stone, horn, mammoth ivory, and bone.

15,000

Relief sculpture of animals are made in caves in France and Spain.  Cave paintings continue.  Hunters move south into Mexico.

10,000

Mesolithic Age (Middle Stone Age).  The end of the Ice Age.  Tools, farming, and the breeding of animals are improved.  Painting is done on rock walls.

8,500

The first rock art in the Sahara region.

8,000

Neolithic Age (New Stone Age).  People begin farming.  Most big game animals die out.

4,000

Aborigines make rock and bark paintings in Australia.  Intuit people produce carvings in the arctic.  Kalahari Bushmen make rock art.

3,600

Egyptians settle around the River Nile.  Sumerians Develop writing, and later the Egyptians do, too.  This puts them out of the prehistoric period.

3,000

Islanders around the Pacific Ocean produce carvings and other art.

2,000

Stonehenge

2,000 – 1,250

Olmec complete carvings in Mexico, including colossal tone heads and jade carvings.

500

Nok carvings produced in Nigeria, Africa.

300

Celtic art appears in Britain.

100

Mayan culture develops in Mexico.  Hieroglyphics are developed which puts these people out of the prehistoric period.