pre 60 thousand bc - modern humans in africa and levant, neanderthals in europe, some homo erectus elsewhere

45 thousand - 10 thousand bc - humans all over old world. paleolithic technology

10 thousand - 6 thousand mesolithic era in europe. stone tools, no agriculture, but ice age big game gone. technological innovations include bow and arrow and domestication of the dog

6 thousand - 3500 bc - agriculture spreads through europe from the southeast to the northwest

4000 - 1000 bronze age spreads through europe

1000 - 0 bc - iron age