Copyright© 2004 30,000BP 17,500BP 8000 7,000 6500 Howard J. Pomerantz, Ph.D. EuropeLate Paleolithic Mesolithic
Abri Blanchard Lascaux Britain Mesolithic
Stonehenge Interior Phases Exterior Phases
Three post holes
Mesopotamia Babylonia Assyria
Egypt
Greece & Mediterranean
Mesoamerica Paleoindian Cultures
Bible Lands 5000 - 4500 4500 4000 ~3750 3500
Earliest megalithic tombs Early Neolithic Middle Neolithic
Round bottom pottery First stone circles Long barrows
Neolithic Bronze Age 4500-3100 Invention of the plow sail pottery wheel ~3400 3100 3000 2900 2800
Newgrange (Ireland) Robin Hood's Ball
Phase 1
Ditch and bank Lesser Cursus Aubrey Holes
Late Uruk Period Archaic Ur
Earliest written documents
Archaic Egyptian writing hyroglyphics
Archaic Cultures 2750 ~2630 2,600 ~2550 2500
Durrington Walls
Phase 2 Phase 3i Phase 3a & b
Post holes at Heel stone "gate" Stone 97 Sarsen Circle NE Entrance and causeway/bank Heelstone ~2600-~2500 and central area Bluestones arrive Station stones
Sumerians
Cuneiform writing continues into 1st century CE
Earliest step pyramid built at Saqqara Great pyramids built 2400 2300 2200 2100 2000 1900
Woodhenge
Beaker Culture
Phase 3ii Phase 3iv
Remodelled Sarsen Bluestone Circle Trilithons ~2280 - ~2030 ~2440 - ~2100 Horseshoe ~2270 - ~1930
Uru'inimgina Gudea of Lagash Isin -Larsa Sargon of Akkad Naram-Sin of Akkad of Lagash Ur III 2112 - 2004 Period Babylonian's @ Assur Ebla archives
First Intermediate Middle Kingdo
Abraham Leaves Ur 1800 1700 1600 1500 1400 1300 1200
Phase 3v
Last major Bluestone Modifications Horseshoe Y & Z Holes & Circle ~1640 - ~1520 Kassite Period Hittites take Babylon Hammurabi
Earliest astonomical text copy of earlier Enuma Elish Enuma Anu Enlil tablet Venus observations om Second Intermediate New Kingdom
Myceneans
Trojan War
Pre-Olmec Cultures Souther
Exodus 1100 `1000 900 800 700 600 500 400
Alex Sele Sargon II Nabonassar Chaldaeans
Equal sign zodiac Oldest MUL.APIN Earliest 7 intercalary rectangula Eclipse observation astro months r records reports diaries in 19 yrs astrolabe 19 yrs = 235 mos. Late Dynastic
Meton Plato Aristotle
First olympic games Battle of Marathon Geometry Hesiod Alexander
Olmec Cultures rn Maya Cultures Preclassic Cultures
Jerusalem David Sele Destroyed 300 250 200 100 ~4 BCE 1 CE 50 CE
xander eucids Babylonian mathematical astronomy
Planetary theory
Ptolemaic (Greek) R
Hipparchus Julius Caesar Calendar reform Meton - Metonic Trigonometry cycle
Late Preclassic Cultures ~300 BCE - 250 CE
Hasmoneans Jesus born Jewish eucids Romans Herod the Great Revolt 100 CE 200 CE 250 CE 600 CE 900 CE 1000 CE
Last known use of cuneiform
Roman
Cladius Ptolemy Almagest
Chichén Maya Itzá Dynastic City-states 250 - 900 height