Date	Place	Country	Cont.	Name of Building	By Whom	Date
						Compl.
-5,000,000,000				Projected Age of the Earth
-4,600,000,000				Pre-Cambrian Age		-570,000,000
-3,300,000,000		Zimbabwe	AF	Earliest known rocks found in Zimbawe and Manitoba
-3,500,000,000				Prokaryote life (Single cells without nuclei)
-1,750,000,000				Eukaryote life (Single cells with nuclei)
-600,000,000				Complex organisms appear
-570,000,000				Paleozoic Era		-245,000,000
-570,000,000				Cambrian Epoch, Invertebrates appear		-510,000,000
-510,000,000				Ordovician Epoch, Mass extinction towards end		-440,000,000
-440,000,000				Silurian Epoch, Reef-building corals, sponges and colony forming organisms		-410,000,000
-410,000,000				Devonian Epoch, Emergence of many plant species, cockroaches, dragonflies and primitive fish		-360,000,000
-360,000,000				Carboniferous Epoch, Coal bearing rock, flying insects, spiders and sharks		-290,000,000
-290,000,000				Permian Epoch, Early reptiles, tree ferns, decline in diversity of marine life followed by mass-extinction.		-245,000,000
-245,000,000				Mesozoic Era		-65,000,000
-245,000,000				Triassic Epoch, Ferns and Monkey Puzzle Trees, Dinosaurs, Crocodiles and ealy Mammals		-208,000,000
-208,000,000				Jurassic Epoch, Conifers, Stegosaurus		-146,000,000
-146,000,000				Cretaceous Epoch, Sycamores, Palms and Conifers, Snakes, Birds and The tyrannosaurus, turtles in the sea, Period ended with mass-extinction of Dinosaurs		-65,000,000
-65,000,000				Cenozoic Era, PLantlife as we know it evolved, dramtic increase n mammals		-1,600,000
-65,000,000				Paleocene Epoch		-56,500,000
-56,500,000				Eocene Epoch, Primitive whales, Apes and Grasses		-35,400,000
-35,400,000				Oligocene Epoch, Sabre-Tooth Tiger, Alligators		-23,300,000
-23,300,000				Miocene Epoch, Dolpihns, sheep, cattle, deer & Proconsul Ape, The oak tree.		-5,200,000
-15,000,000		Kenya	AF	Kenyapithecus
-11,000,000		India	AS	Sivapithecus		-7,000,000
-5,200,000				Pliocene Epoch		-1,600,000
-3,000,000		Ethiopia	AF	Australopithecus (Lucy)
-2,000,000			AF	Homo Habilis
-1,700,000			AF/AS	Homo Erectus
-1,900,000	Olduvai Gorge	Tanzania	AF	Earliest known tools discovered Oldowan Tools		-1,200,000
-1,000,000				Homo erectus spreads as far as China
-950,000	Vallonet Cave	France	E	Earliest evidence of hominids in Europe
-970,000	Soleilhac	France	E	Earliest evidence of windbreak structure		-730,000
-500,000	Escale	France	E	Hearth in a cave
-460,000	Zhoukoudian	China	AS	Evidence of Control of Fire
-380,000	Terra Amata	France	E	Hut Settlement, earliest known artificial shelter
-500,000	Orangia	S/Africa	AF	Stone semicircles perhaps bases of structures		-100,000
-250,000			AF/E/AS	Evidence of Arhcaic Homo Sapiens
-250,000	Becov, Bohemia	Czech Rep.	E	Evidence of pigment use
-240,000	Gesher Benot Ya'aqov	Jordan	ME	Oldest evidence of wooden plank
-120,000			E/ME	First Neanderthals (Homo Sapiens Neanderthalis)
-100,000			AF	Evidence of fully modern Humans (Homo Sapiens Sapiens)
-100,000	Qafzeh Cave	Israel	ME	First evidence of burial
-100,000	Combe-Grenal	France	E	Evidence of structures built in front of caves: windbreaks or fences		-50,000
-70,000	Nishiyagi	Japan	AS	Oldest evidence of woodwork: engraved plank of Mulberry wood
-60,000			ME/E	Levallois technique of flint working developed
-60,000	Shanidar Cave	Iraq	ME	Neanderthal Burial
-55,000		Australia	OC	Colonisation of Australia begins (First boats?)
-50,000	Grotte du Renne	France	E	Circular Huts within a cave: floors edged with limestone slaps and mammoth tusks as uprights		-35,000
-45,000	Panaramitee	Australia	OC	Petroglyphs
-40,000	NIah, Sarawak	Borneo	AS	Limestone caves occupied
-40,000	Kakadu National Park	Australia	OC	Symbols and hand prints painted on rock shelter
-40,000				First Ice Age ends, Neanderthalers become extinct
-37,000	Border Cave	South Af.	AF	Baboon fibula: earliest known counting device
-35,000			E	Neanderthals extinct, replaced by Modern Humans
-32,000			AF/ME/E	Broadening of the range of tools		-18,000
-30,000	Hohlenstein-Stadel	Germany	E	Carved Ivory Statuette of Human with Feline Head
-30,000	Willendorf	Austria	E	Carved limestone female figurine
-30,000				Second Ice Age		-15,000
-28,000	Sungir	Russia	E/As	Ivory Animal Pendant with traces of paint
-26,000	Apollo 11 Cave	Namibia	AF	Earliest known cave painting		-19,000
-25,000	Avdeevo	Russia	E/As	Ivory Figurine
-24,000	Dolni Vestonice, Moravia	Czech Rep.	E	Evidence of permanent structure
-20,000	Chauvet	France	E	Cave
-18,000	Laussel	France	E	Rock-cut relief, "Venus of Laussel"
-18,000	Lascaux	France	E	Cave
-18,000	Mezhirich	Ukraine	E	Patterned Mammoth Bone-Hut		15000 BC
-12,000	Altamira	Spain	E	Cave
-11,000	Monte Verde	Chile	LAM	First evidence of colonisation of Americas and of constructed dwellings
-12,000	Ain Mallaha	Israel	ME	Round, stone-walled, sunken huts found along the Levant
-12,000	Nasunahara	Japan	AS	Earliest known pottery vessels: Incipient Jomon
-11,000	Franchti Cave	Greece	E	Boat Expeditions to Gather obsidian for tools to Cycladic island Melos
-10,000	Mugharet el-Kebara	Israel	ME	Burials under the floors of dwellings common
-10,000	Grotte du Tai	France	E	Oldest known solar calendar (?)
-9,000			ME	Beginnings of farming
-8,000	Jericho	Israel	ME	Mudbricks, invented in 89th M. now mass produced using wooden mould
-8,000			AF	Matting used for domestic purposes		-7000
-7500	Jericho	Palastine	ME	First settlement, City Wall
-7000	Nea Nikomedeia	Greece	E	Whattle and Daub rectangular huts		-6000
-7000	Catalhoyuk	Turkey	ME	Settlement		6000 BC
-6500	Nabta Playa	Egypt	AF	Oval Huts, sunken and covered with animal hides
-6000	Hassuna	Mesop.	ME	Large domed kilns for pottery making
-6000	Sahara		AF	Domestication of Cattle
-6000	Banpo, Shaanxi	China	AS	Round or square huts of whattle and daub and thatched roofs		-5000
-5500	Khirokitia	Cyprus	E	Settlement
-5000	Eridu	Iraq	ME	Temple XVII
-5000	Sittard	Netherlands	E	Long-House settlement		4000 BC
-5000			C	Colonisation of Caribbean prob. from Yucatán Peninsula		-4000
-4900	Eridu	Iraq	ME	Temple XVI
-3800	Eridu	Iraq	ME	Temple VII
-3500	Warka (Erech or Uruk)	Iraq	ME	"White Temple"		3000 BC
-3500		Mesopotamia	ME	Cuneiform Writing developed
-3100		Egypt	AF	Narmer becomes first Pharao of Egypt
-3100	Abydos	Upper Egypt	AF	Royal Tumulus Tomb (Mastaba) 1st Dynasty		2890 BC
-3000		Crete	E	Pictorial Writing
-3000		Egypt	AF	Hieratic Writing
-3000	Avebury	England	E	Neolithic circle		2000 BC
-3000	Carnac	France	E	Menhir		2000 BC
-3000	Carnac	France	E	Stone Alignments		2000 BC
-3000	Locmariaquer	France	E	Dolmen		2000 BC
-3000	Essé	France	E	Gallery Grave		2000 BC
-3000	Khafaje	Iraq	ME	Sin Temple II
-3000	New Grange	Ireland	E	Passage Grave		2000 BC
-3000	Ggantija	Malta	E	Temple Complex		2000 BC
-3000	Skara Brae	Scotland	E	Settlement		2000 BC
-3000	Troy (Hissarlik)	Turkey	ME	Troy I
-2900	Kahfaje	Iraq	ME	Sin Temple V
-2850		China	AS	The legendary Golden Age begins
-2750	Stonehenge	England	E	Stone Circle		1500 BC
-2750	Khafaje	Iraq	ME	Sin Temple VIII
-2680	Saqqara	Lower Egypt	AF	King Zoser's Mortuary Complex 3rd Dynasty	Imhotep
-2650	Khafaje	Iraq	ME	Oval Temple		2350 BC
-2570	Giza	Lower Egypt	AF	Pyramids of Chefren, Cheops & Mykernios 3rd Dynasty		2500 BC
-2500	Troy	Turkey	ME	Troy II		2200 BC
-2205		China	AS	The Legendary Hsia Dynasty Begins
-2200		Crete	E	Linear Writing in Pen and Ink
-2113	Ur	Iraq	ME	Ziggurat precinct		2006 BC
-2113	Ur	Iraq	ME	Stele of Ur-Nammu		2096 BC
-2050	Deir-el-Bahri	Upper Egypt	AF	Mortuary Temple of Mentuhotep
-2000	Korakou	Greece	E	Hairpin Megaron house		1500 BC
-1900	Hattusas (Bogazköy)	Turkey	ME	Hittite Capital		1200 BC
-1897	El Kahun	Lower Egypt	AF	Workers'Town at Pyramid site of King Sesostris II		1878 BC
-1800	Beycesultan	Turkey	ME	Palace
-1800	Troy	Turkey	ME	Troy VI		1300 BC
-1760		China	AS	Shang Dynasty begins		1122 BC
-1750	Mari (Tel Hariri)	Syria	ME	Royal Palace
-1720		Egypt	AF	Hyksos conquest of Egypt, introduction of the War Chariot
-1700	Gournia	Crete	E	Minoan Town		1100 BC
-1700		Mesopotamia	ME	The Code of Hammurabi, first known code of laws
-1600	Phaistos	Crete	E	Minoan Palace
-1600	Knossos	Crete	E	Minoan Palace
-1600	Tyrins	Greece	E	Mycenaean Citadel		1100 BC
-1600	Mycenae	Greece	E	Citadel		1100 BC
-1600	Mycenae	Greece	E	Grave Circle		1500 BC
-1550		Mesopotamia	ME	Sack of Babylon by Hittites
-1546		Egypt	AF	18th Dynasty begins
-1525	Karnac	Upper Egypt	AF	Temple of Amon		1512 BC
-1504	Karnac	Upper Egypt	AF	Temple of Amon add  of Festival Hall		1450 BC
-1500	Nippur	Iraq	ME	Map of the city on clay tablet		BC
-1500	Alaca Hüyük	Turkey	ME	Sphinx Gate
-1500	Deir-el-Bahri	Upper Egypt	AF	Mortuary Temple of Queen Hatshepsut	Senmut
-1417	Luxor	Upper Egypt	AF	Temple of Amon, Mut & Khonsu		1379 BC
-1400		Crete	E	Knossos burns, Cretan civilization ends
-1400	Mycenae	Greece	E	Tholos Tomb, "Treasury of Atreus"		1300 BC
-1400	Hattusas	Turkey	ME	Temple I		1300 BC
-1379	Amarna	Upper Egypt	AF			1362 BC
-1350	Hattusas	Turkey	AF	Yazilikaya open air sanctuary		1250 BC
-1307	Luxor	Upper Egypt	AF	Temple of Amon, Mut & Khonsu additions		1237 BC
-1300		Egypt/Israel	AF	Israelite oppression under Ramses II
-1300	Pylos	Greece	E	Mycenaean Palace		1200 BC
-1300	Mycenae	Greece	E	Lion Gate		1200 BC
-1300	Hattusas	Turkey	ME	Lion Gate		1200 BC
-1300	Hattusas	Turkey	ME	Underground Tunnel		1200 BC
-1250	Abu Simbel	Egypt	AF	Rock Cut Temples
-1250		Mesopotamia	ME	Assyrian Conquest of Mesopotamia
-1200		Egypt	AF	Attacked by "People from the Sea"
-1200		Medit.	AF	Phoenician sea power of independent city states
-1200	Palmavera	Sardinia	E	Watch tower or Nuraghi
-1200		Turkey	ME	Downfall of Hittite Kingdom
-1200	Troy	Turkey	ME	Homeric Siege of Troy
-1122		China	AS	Chou Dynasty begins lasting 870 years
-1115		China	AS	Discovery of the magnetic compass needle
-1028		Israel	ME	Saul establishes Kingship in Israel
-1000		India	AS	Rig Vida
-1000	Jerusalem	Israel	ME	Becomes Capital of Israel, David isKing
-961	Jerusalem	Israel	ME	Temple begun by Solomon
-900		Greece	E	Homer writes the Illiad and the Odyssey
-893		Mesopotamia	ME	Assyrian chronological records begin
-800	La Venta	Mexico	LA	Pyramid complex		400 BC
-800	Ohio	USA	NA	Sepent Mound of the Adena
-776	Mount Olympus	Greece	E	First Olympiad to be used for Chronological Purposes
-753	Rome	Italy	E	Founded according to legend by Romulus and Remo
-750		Greece