General
Population: Perhaps 1-10 million*
- Climate: End of last ice age (40K BC)
- Entertainment: Earliest known flute (45K BC)
- Humans: Homo sapiens sapiens live along with Homo sapiens neanderthalis
Start of modern humans (40K BC)
- Technology: Stone tools invented (40K BC)
Africa
- Namibia: Oldest art found (44K BC)
Americas
- Early entry of humans into North America - ice age (40K BC)
Europe
- France: Oldest art found (44K BC)
Pacific
- Australia: Australia becomes arid - bush fires destroy habitat and megafauna die (44K BC)
Aboriginal Australians sail (40K BC)
Rock engravings (40K BC)