Timeline


 * Humans and Neanderthal
 * c. 40,000 BCE, new evidence shows that the Neanderthal genome included harmful mutations, due to inbreeding, that made these hominids 40% less reproductively fit than humans. Neanderthal population sizes remained small, and mating among close relatives was likely very common. The genomic analysis of Sunghir human remains, partly explains why anatomically modern humans were more successful than Neanderthals, who went extinct some 40,000 years ago.


 * Early societies
 * c. 32,000 BCE, evidence for social norms in early development for modern human societies.
 * c. 32,000 BCE, evidence for making clothes with flax fibers.

See 
 * Younger Dryas period
 * c. 14,000 BCE, thrives in the.
 * c. 12,500 BCE, thrives in the  (ian culture of the Nile Valley, share a common genomic component with fossils associated with the early cultures of the Natufian).
 * c. 12,000 BCE, construction in progress, below Layer III, at Göbekli Tepe (Date speculated by Klaus Schmidt).[Not in scope of Mainstream]
 * c. 10,000 BCE, construction in progress for the Great Sphinx of Giza and likely also for the Great Pyramid of Giza (Date proposed by ).[Dating not supported by Mainstream]
 * c. 10,000 BCE, underground construction in progress for the Ħal-Saflieni Hypogeum in . ( suggests up to 20,000 years ago ).[Neither datings supported by Mainstream]
 * b. 9600 BCE, Pre-dynastic period of Sumer thrives (See ).[Dating not acknowledged by Mainstream]
 * b. 9600 BCE, Göbekli Tepe ritual activity performed at the elevated spiritual center found in Layer I.
 * b. 9600 BCE, the established at pre-.

See Great Flood
 * Great Flood
 * c. 9600 BCE, [In current debate] prompting  for  and low-level extinction and/or disappearance of big mammals in North America.
 * c. 9360 BCE, Atlantis is destroyed (See 's Timaeus and Critias).[Not accepted by Mainstream]
 * Lord Brahmâ is swept away by the waters of the "great flood". [Not in scope of Mainstream]
 * A man and his family, and possibly others, are preserved by boat (poss., ,  / Nûh, Shraddhadeva Manu, or ) [Not acknowledged by Mainstream]


 * Rebuilding civilization
 * c. 8800 BCE, the city of  is established and dedicated to.
 * a. 8000 BCE, Göbekli Tepe is mysteriously backfilled where numerous tool/weapon tips such as -points and Aswad-points were found in the backfill (Aswad-points were used by the ).
 * c. 8000 BCE, the is built.
 * c. 7500 BCE, the was tropical and wet (See )
 * c. 7000 BCE, settlement near the  valley (Pakistan)
 * c. 7000 BCE, settlement flourishes.
 * c. 6000 BCE, thrive in the  of.
 * c. 5400 BCE, is resettled (Sumeria).
 * c. 5000 BCE, thrives alongside the  in China.
 * c. 4500 BCE, culture settles near the  (pre-).
 * c. 4000 BCE, is resettled (Sumeria).
 * c. 3800 BCE, is resettled (Sumeria).
 * c. 3600 BCE, is settled along the Nile (See )
 * c. 3300 BCE, settles  (Pakistan).
 * c. 3100 BCE, Jushur (poss. Nimrod) establishes rule in Kish, and founds the city/state of.
 * c. 3100 BCE, the is established.
 * c. 3000 BCE, the begins to dry out and  begins (May explain later conditions for Biblical famines).
 * c. 2500 BCE, thrives with  as capital.
 * c. 2000 BCE, Abram, his wife Sarai, and their family leave to settle in the land of .[Not in scope of Mainstream]
 * c. 1513 BCE, Israelites migrate from Egypt to re-settle the land of Canaan.[Date not acknowledged by Mainstream]