| Prehistoric Scratchpad PhBP Po10BP |
Our human ancestor species evolved and spread throughout much of the Old World. Homo Erectus may have been dominant at this time, with pockets of older humanity still around.
1 Million Years Ago Web Pages[edit | edit source]
Sites[edit | edit source]
East Africa
- Lake Turkana - Lake in Kenya where many types of humans over the ages lived.
- Middle Awash - Site in Ethiopia along the Awash River. Fossils of humans of different kind over the ages has been found.
South Africa
- Wonderwerk Cave - Cave in South Africa where the earliest use of Fire has been confirmed.
West Europe
- Atapuerca Mountains - Cave in Spain with earliest homonins known in Europe.
Americas
Near East
East Asia
- Nihawan Basin - River basin in China just west of Beijing that is home to many archaeological dates dating from almost 2 million years ago to a hundred thousand years ago.
Australia & Oceana
Antarctica
- Allan Hills - A hilly area of Antarctica near the start of the Trans-Antarctic Mountains. Has martian and lunar meteors, blue ice cores dating 2.4 million years, and a fossilized forest from the Triassic period.
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