Template:Paleolithic

↑ before Homo (Pliocene)

Lower Paleolithic (c. 2.6 Ma - 100,000 ka) (genus Homo)

Olduwan (2.6 - 1.8 Ma) earliest stone tools

Acheulean (1.7 - 0.1 Ma) Controlled fire, earliest large game hunting

Clactonian (0.3 - 0.2 Ma)

Middle Paleolithic (300,000 - 30,000 ka) (Neanderthal, H. sapiens) earliest evidence of behavioral modernity (art and intentional burials) earliest undisputed evidence of cooking food migration beyond Africa).

Mousterian (300 - 30 ka)

Aterian (82 ka)

Upper Paleolithic(50,000 - 10,000 ka) (behavioral modernity: abundant artwork, fully developed language)

Baradostian (36 ka)

Châtelperronian (35 - 29 ka)

Aurignacian (32 - 26 ka)

Gravettian (28 - 22 ka)

Solutrean (21 - 17 ka)

Magdalenian (18 - 10 ka)

Hamburg (14 ka)

Ahrensberg (13 ka)

Swiderian (10 ka)