Template:Paleolithic

↑ before Homo (Pliocene)

Lower Paleolithic (c. 2.6 Ma–100 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 (300–30 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(50–10 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)