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Human history
Cave of the Hands, Argentina
↑ Prehistory (Stone Age)   (Pleistocene epoch)
Holocene Timelines Neolithic – Contemporary (10,000 BCE – Present) Age of the human race Recorded history (Common Era) Earliest records Protohistory Proto-writing
Ancient Copper Age Bronze Age Iron Age Axial Age Classical antiquity Late antiquity Africa North America South America Oceania East Asia South Asia Southeast Asia West Asia Europe
Postclassical Timeline Africa Americas Oceania East Asia South Asia Southeast Asia West Asia Europe Renaissance
Modern Early modern Contemporary Africa North America South America Oceania East Asia South Asia Southeast Asia West Asia Europe See also Age of Discovery Modernity Postmodernity Futurology Political history
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The following is a list of timeline articles:

• For events dating from the formation of the universe see: Timeline of the early universe
• For events dating from the formation of the planet to the rise of modern humans see: Timeline of natural history, Timeline of the evolutionary history of life and Timeline of human evolution.
• For events dating from the first appearance of Homo sapiens to before the invention of writing see: Timeline of prehistory

These timelines of world history detail recorded events since the creation of writing roughly 5000 years ago to the present day.

• For events from c. 3200 BC – c. 500 see: Timeline of ancient history
• For events from c. 500 – c. 1499, see: Timeline of post-classical history
• For events from c. 1500, see: Timelines of modern history

• For future timelines, see: Timelines of the future

• ChronoZoom
• Human history
• List of years
• List of decades, centuries, and millennia