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General

Population: Perhaps 1-10 million*

• Climate: End of last ice age (40K BC)
• Entertainment: Earliest known flute (45K BC)
• Humans: Homo sapiens sapiens live along with Homo sapiens neanderthalis
  Start of modern humans (40K BC)
• Technology: Stone tools invented (40K BC)

Africa

• Namibia: Oldest art found (44K BC)

Americas

• Early entry of humans into North America - ice age (40K BC)

Europe

• France: Oldest art found (44K BC)

Pacific

• Australia: Australia becomes arid - bush fires destroy habitat and megafauna die (44K BC)
  Aboriginal Australians sail (40K BC)
  Rock engravings (40K BC)