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General

Population: Perhaps 1-10 million*

• Chronology: Oldest known solar calendar in France (20K BC)
  Possible lunar calendars in Israel and Jordan (20K BC)
• Climate: Glaciation begins (25K BC)
  Tioga glacial maximum in ice age as sea 130 meters lower than present era (20K BC)
• Entertainment: Clay statuettes found (27-23K BC)
• Science: Extinction of Neanderthals (26K BC)
• Technology: Fishing wedge (25K BC)
  Bow and arrow develop (25 - 20K BC)
  Atlatl invented (20K BC)
  First known map drawn on bone (20K BC)

Africa

• Namibia: Cave drawings (24K BC)

Americas

• General: Probable crossing of Bering land bridge (28K BC)
• North America: Carved animal bone (25K BC)
  Mastodons plentiful (20K BC)
• South America: Cave dwellers in Brazil (25K BC)

Asia

• East: Settlements in the north-east (20K BC)

Europe

• General: Clay figures of women and animals (27K BC)
  Clay houses created (24K BC)
• France: Simple musical instruments (25K BC)
  Lascaux paintings created (28-20K BC)
• Poland: Ivory boomerang created (21K BC)
• Spain: Extinction of Neanderthal at Gibraltar (24K BC)
  Cave paintings created (20K BC)

Pacific

• Australia: Evidence of early humans, stone tools, and cremations (28-20K BC)
• New Zealand: Taupo volcano eruption (24K BC)