Timeline of Ancient Religion and Society

By Charlotte R
  • Period: 50,000 BCE to 50,000 BCE

    Symbolic Revolution

    50,000 years ago
  • 40,000 BCE

    Mungo Woman

  • Period: 40,000 BCE to 130,000 BCE

    Homo neanderthalensis

    130,000-40,000 years ago
  • Period: 37,000 BCE to 230,000 BCE

    Lazaret Cave

  • Period: 33,500 BCE to 236,000 BCE

    Homo naledi

  • Period: 31,000 BCE to 40,000 BCE

    Aurignacian flutes

    31,000 and 40,000 before present
  • 30,000 BCE

    Homo heidelbergensis

    3000,000-600,000 years ago
  • 13,000 BCE

    Trois-Frères cave

  • 10,000 BCE

    Thousand year drought

  • Period: 7000 BCE to 9600 BCE

    Gobekli Tepe

  • Period: 4500 BCE to 1900 BCE

    Sumerian Empire

    . 4500 – c. 1900 BC
  • Period: 3500 BCE to 3000 BCE

    Cuneiform

  • Period: 2900 BCE to 2350 BCE

    Gilgamesh

  • Period: 1353 BCE to 1335 BCE

    Pharaoh Akhenaton

  • Period: 668 BCE to 627 BCE

    Ashurbanipal

  • Period: 300 BCE to 500 BCE

    Axial Age

  • 1 BCE

    Dmanisi skull

    1.8 million years ago
  • Period: 610 to 632

    Qur’an

  • Period: 930 to 1047

    Ancient Israelite Commonwealth

    starting with Kings Saul and David