Drucker&McVarish Dates

35000BCE-2700BCE Prehistoric Period
200000BCE biologically modern humans emerge
20000BCE Venus of Willendorf created
9000BCE - Altamira Cave Paintings created
1870's CE - Altamira Cave PAintings Discovered
5000BCE-2000BCE - Neolithic Period
8000BCE First protowriting appears
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10000BCE hallelujah Man on painted stones created Mas D'Azil France
3000BCE Mesopotamian Clay tokens = cash register receipts
1800BCE Indus Valley Script
1300BCE Oracle Bones created in China
3200BCE First writing = Mesopotamian Script
2000BCE First maps invented in Sumer
1250 CE Dresden Codex - Yucatan created
60000BCE Language thought to have first emerged
3000BCE - Narmer Palette created
300 CE - Hieroglyphics banned in Egypt
1000BCE Moabite stone created by Mesa, King of Moab
700BCE - first vowels added to Greek language "reading aides"
600 CE Runes invented in northern Europe
400BCE monoline (aligned) script appears in Greek writing
403BCE Ionic Script becomes official Greek Alphabet
100CE cursive and majascule appear in Rome
400CE- Codex (book) arises from classical to medieval literacy
410CE Rome sacked - Classical Period ends
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400CE Codex replaces other information formats
100CE Paper first produced in China
1150CE paper making in Europe