Time Period Index (Prehistoric)

Agriculture arose independently at several locations across the world, beginning about 12,000 years ago. The first crops...

Homo heidelbergensis is an extinct species of human that is identified in both Africa and western Eurasia from roughly 700,000...

An ice age is a period in which the earth's climate is colder than normal, with ice sheets capping the poles and glaciers dominating...

Homo habilis ("handy man") is an extinct species of human that lived in East and South Africa between 2.3 and 1.5 million years ago...

A dolmen is a megalithic structure typically formed from a large horizontal stone slab resting on two or more upright slabs. The oldest...

Banpo Village is a Neolithic site in the Yellow River Valley, east of Xi'an, Shaanxi Province, in the People's Republic of China...