Neogene Period
Miocene Epoch 23 Ma
Pliocene Epoch: (roughly 3 million years ago humans appear)
Zanclean: 5,332,000 B.C. - Australopithicenes (5 Ma)
Piacenzian: 3,600,000 B.C.
Gelasian: 2,588,000 B.C. - Homo abilis in Ethiopia (2.5 Ma)
Pleistocene Epoch
Early: 1,806,000 B.C. – Homo erectus (1.5 Ma) : ability to control fire
Middle: 781,000 B.C. – Homo sapiens food gathering (0.5 Ma): ability to speak
Late 126,000 B.C.
Late Paleolithic: ends around 120,000 B.C. (had started in the Gelasian period 2.5 Ma)
Middle Paleolithic: 120,000-40,000 B.C. Homo sapiens Neanderthalensis (110,000BC): spirituality.
Upper Paleolithic: 40,000-10,000 B.C. Homo sapiens sapiens (35,000BC)
Holocene Epoch (it is the current Epoch)
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