Middle Paleolithic Stone Age Timeline


 * 315,000 years ago: approximate date of appearance of Homo sapiens (Jebel Irhoud, Morocco).
 * 270,000 years ago: age of Y-DNA haplogroup A00 ("Y-chromosomal Adam").
 * 250,000 years ago: first appearance of Homo neanderthalensis (Saccopastore skulls).
 * 250,000–200,000 years ago: modern human presence in West Asia (Misliya cave).
 * 230,000–150,000 years ago: age of mt-DNA haplogroup L ("Mitochondrial Eve").
 * 210,000 years ago: modern human presence in southeast Europe (Apidima, Greece).
 * 195,000 years ago: Omo remains (Ethiopia).
 * 170,000 years ago: humans are wearing clothing by this date.
 * 160,000 years ago: Homo sapiens idaltu.
 * 150,000 years ago: Peopling of Africa: Khoisanid separation, age of mtDNA haplogroup L0.
 * 125,000 years ago: peak of the Eemian interglacial period.
 * 120,000 years ago: SE Australian Aboriginal people were cooking on hearths. Charcoal and Burnt Stone Feature #1 (CBS1) located within coastal dune sediments at Moyjil (Point Ritchie), Warrnambool, that independent geomorphic and OSL dating indicates is of Last Interglacial age (~120,000 years ago). [1]
 * 120,000–90,000 years ago: Abbassia Pluvial in North Africa—the Sahara desert region is wet and fertile.
 * 120,000–75,000 years ago: Khoisanid back-migration from Southern Africa to East Africa.
 * 100,000 years ago: Earliest structures in the world (sandstone blocks set in a semi-circle with an oval foundation) built in Egypt close to Wadi Halfa near the modern border with Sudan.
 * 82,000 years ago: small perforated seashell beads from Taforalt in Morocco are the earliest evidence of personal adornment found anywhere in the world.
 * 80,000–70,000 years ago: Recent African origin: separation of sub-Saharan Africans and non-Africans.
 * 75,000 years ago: Toba Volcano supereruption that may have contributed to human populations being lowered to about 15,000 people.
 * 70,000 years ago: earliest example of abstract art or symbolic art from Blombos Cave, South Africa—stones engraved with grid or cross-hatch patterns.
 * 67,000–40,000 years ago: Neanderthal admixture to Eurasians.
 * 50,000 years ago: earliest sewing needle found. Made and used by Denisovans.
 * 50,000–30,000 years ago: Mousterian Pluvial in North Africa. The Sahara desert region is wet and fertile. Later Stone Age begins in Africa.
 * 45,000–43,000 years ago: European early modern humans.