Middle Paleolithic
- 200,000 years ago: appearance of Homo sapiens in Africa
- 150,000 years ago: time of mitochondrial Eve
- 125,000 years ago: peak of the Eemian Stage interglacial
- 90,000 years ago: time of Y-chromosomal Adam
- c. 75,000 years ago: Toba Volcano supereruption.
- 60,000 years ago: out of Africa migration of modern humans; approximate age of Haplogroup N (mtDNA), Haplogroup C (mtDNA) and Haplogroup A (mtDNA)
- 50,000 years ago: Modern humans spread from Africa to the Near East; age of Haplogroup B (mtDNA) In the next millennia, these human group's descendants move on to southern India, the Malay islands, Australia, Japan, China, Siberia, Alaska, and the northwestern coast of North America. Later Stone Age begins in Africa.
- 45,000 years ago: approximate age of Haplogroup U (mtDNA)
- 42,000 years ago: Paleolithic flutes in Europe
- 41,000 years ago: Denisova hominin lives in the Altai Mountains
Read more about this topic: Timeline Of Human Prehistory
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