Early Human Migration

Linear Pottery Culture (LBK) expansion into Central Europe (c. 5,500–4,500 BCE)

5600 BCE - 4900 BCE

Last Glacial Maximum refugia and postglacial recolonization of Europe (c. 26,500–10,000 BP)

26500 BCE - 9750 BCE

Jwalapuram and southern India post-Toba occupation sequence (c.74,000–10,000 BP)

78000 BCE - 10000 BCE

Jebel Faya and early Arabian coastal occupations (c. 125–50 ka)

19400 BCE - 2026

Initial colonization of Sahul (Australia and New Guinea) by Homo sapiens (c. 65–40 ka)

65000 BCE - 8000 BCE

Ice-Free Corridor deglaciation and human passage evidence (c. 16,000–11,000 BP)

24000 BCE - 8750 BCE

Hybrid zones and replacement events between Homo sapiens and archaic hominins in Eurasia (c. 120–30 ka)

Homo ergaster dispersal into the Levant and Eurasia (c. 1.8–1.2 Ma)

1900 BCE - 1200 BCE

Homo erectus colonization of Java and Sangiran (c. 1.6–0.7 Ma)

1891 - 2019

Homo erectus at Dmanisi, Georgia (c. 1.85–1.77 Ma)

1849 BCE - 2013

Gravettian culture spread in Central and Eastern Europe (c. 33,000–22,000 BP)

31500 BCE - 19000 BCE

Genomic history of Austronesian-speaking populations (c.3000 BCE–present)

3000 BCE - 2022