Meanwhile…

Earliest Evidence of Ritual Burial

around 60,000 BC

Shamanic Practices and Animal Spirit Worship

around 35,000 BC

Venus Figurines and Fertility Cults

around 25,000 BC

Diverse reef fauna colonizes coral ecosystems

from around 485 million years ago to the present

The emergence of spoken language

rond 100.000 - 50.000 jaar geleden

rise of cave art and symbolic thinking

ongeveer 35.000 jaar geleden

Cave Art as Sacred Expression

around 17,000 BC

Caves and temporary shelters

ca. 100.000 - 20.000 jaar geleden

Modern humans spread across the area of present-day China

circa 40.000-30.000 v.Chr.

Domestication of the wolf into the dog

ongeveer 15.000 jaar geleden

Great Barrier Reef begins forming

around 500,000 years ago

The Last Glacial Maximum

rond 21.000 jaar geleden