Planet Earth - Prehistory Age

The Prehistory Age runs from 11,700 to 5,000 years ago. Details to come...but for ease this period is then divided up into even smaller bite sized chunks...

70,000 years ago, the last ice age or glacial period began and with this came the evolution of the body louse and potentially the origins of clothing.

50,000 years ago,  there was a great leap forward - a human cultural revolution - it is also thought that both Homo sapiens and Neanderthals interbreed.

45,000 years ago, there is the colonisation of the landmass that we now know as Australia or that place down under.

40,000 years ago, there are Denisova hominin in Siberia

24,000 years ago, the species of Human known as the Neanderthals have become extinct

18,700 years ago, the sub species of Human, found in Indonesia, known as Homo floresiensis or the Hobbit (no relation to the works of J. R. R. Tolkien) becomes extinct.

15,000 years ago, Humans have started to colonise the land masses known as the Americas (or the North and South American continents)

Planet Earth - Holocene Epoch - Parish Notices

The Holocene Epoch ran from 11,700 years to today (2012) and has been subdivided into three ages, these being Prehistory (11,700 to 5,000 years ago), Historical (5,000 to 300 years ago) and Recent (300 years ago to the present day (2012)). These will all be examined in greater detail in further entries in this blog. Details to come...

Planet Earth - Tarantian Age

The Tarntian Age ran from 126,000 to 11,700 million years ago with a marginal difference of 5,000 years. Details to come...

125,000 years ago, some humans leave Africa to travel to the Near East.

Planet Earth - Ionian Age

The Ionian Age ran from 0.781 to 0.126 million years ago. Details to come...

0.6 million years ago, Homo heidelbergensis was capable of speech, partially due to an expanded brain size of  1200 cubic centimetres.

0.5 million years ago or 500,000 years ago, it is thought that more sophisticated stone axes, compared to those ones found in 2.6 million years ago (show link to the blog site).

230,000 years ago, the species of Man known as Neanderthals evolved with the average brain capacity of 1,300 cubic centimetres.

200,000 years ago, the species of man known as Homo sapiens evolved also with the same brain capacity as Neanderthals.

Planet Earth - Calabrian Age

The Calabrian Age ran from 1.806 to 0.781 million years ago. Details to come...

Our aforementioned Homo erectus leaves the continent of Africa, at around 1.8 million years ago, and moves towards Asia, it is thought that the brain volume has now expanded to 1,000 cubic centimetres.

1.7 million years ago, the so-called savannah  living was established...more details to come

1.6 million years ago, the Pleistocene ice age begins (is this the first use of fire?)...more details to come

Planet Earth - Gelasian Age

The Gelasian Age ran from 2.588 to 1.806 million years ago. Details to come...

2.5 million years ago, the genus Homo evolved and through this evolution, the brain capacity grew to 600 cubic centimetres (this has expanded from the 400 to 500 cubic centimetres of Australopithecines).

2.0 million years ago, the genus Homo erectus evolved and once again the brain capacity grew, this time to 850 cubic centimetres.

Planet Earth - Pleistocene Epoch - Parish Notices

The Plesitocene Epoch runs from 2.588 to 0.0118 million years ago and is further split into four ages. These being the Gelasian (2.588 to 1.806 million years ago), the Calabrian (1.806 to 0.781 million years ago), the Ionian (0.781 to 0.126 million years ago) and the Late Epoch (0.126 to 0.0118 million years ago). Details to come...