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Main history articles
[edit]History by chronology
[edit]- Chronology of the Universe
- Formation and evolution of the Solar System
- Geological history of Earth
- Evolutionary history of life
- History of the world (see also: World history)
- Universal history
- Pre-Columbian
- Renaissance
- Future history
Ages of history
[edit]Prehistoric Ages
[edit]- Stone Age
- Paleolithic
- Lower Paleolithic – (Homo, Stone tools, spread of Homo Erectus to Eurasia, control of fire, and later spears, pigments, constructed shelter)
- Middle Paleolithic – (Recent African origin of modern humans, Homo sapiens, Homo neanderthalensis; clothing, beads, burial, bedding, bone tools)
- Upper Paleolithic – (behavioral modernity, atlatl, domestication of dogs)
- Mesolithic – (microliths, bow, canoes)
- Neolithic – (domestication, nomadic pastoralism, agriculture, proto-cities)
- Chalcolithic (Copper Age) – (Yamna culture, Corded Ware)
- Paleolithic