PTH; timeframes

advanced digital era	advanced digital era	advanced digital era		advanced digital era	digital era & industrial	advanced digital era
			2000
early digital era	early digital era	early digital era		early digital era	industrial & post- colonial	early digital era
			1950
industrial era	industrial era	industrial era		industrial era	early industrial & partly colonial	industrial era
			1900
early industrial & formative period	early industrial	early industrial & Ottoman decline		early industrial & partly colonial		early industrial & partly colonial
			1800
colonial period	enlighten- ment	Ottoman period Ottoman period		partly colonial & self- fashioning	colonial period & exploration	exploration & discovery






			1600
exploration & discovery	renaissance


			1500
(post) classical period (post) classical period				late medieval		(meso) lithic era (meso) lithic era
			1450
	late medieval				late medieval early medieval


			1350
				mongol period
			1300
	high medieval	medieval early medieval

			1200
				early medieval



			1000
	early medieval

			800
					ancient ancient
			600
				(post) classical classical
			450
	classical antiquity	classical antiquity
			200
formative period formative period



			500 BCE
	iron age	iron age		iron age	iron age

			1000
	bronze age bronze age			bronze age bronze age	bronze age bronze age
			1200
		bronze age bronze age

			2000
archaic era archaic era




			3000
	neolithic era neolithic era			neolithic era neolithic era	neolithic era neolithic era

			3500
		neolithic era


			4500
Mesolithic
			6000
					Mesolithic
			7000
				Mesolithic
			8000
	Mesolithic
Holocene Epoch
10 thousand

adv. lithic tools, pottery & textiles (emergence of sedentism) Mesolithic
18 thousand

social norms, cooperation, planning music, language & abstract thinking (emergence of intellectual behaviour) Upper Paleolithic
50 thousand

art, religion & social interaction (emergence of Homo Sapiens) Middle Paleolithic
300 thousand

use of stone tools and fire (emergence of Homo Erectus) Lower Paleolithic
2.6 million

Hominina separated from Panina (emergence of Homo Habilis) Pliocene Epoch
5.3 million

emergence of human ancestors (diversification of Primates) Miocene Epoch
23 million

evolvement & diversification of Flora and Fauna Paleogene Period

mass- extinction event		66 million			mass- extinction event

(re-)evolvement of Flora and Fauna Mesozoic Era

mass- extinction event		252 million			mass- extinction event

evolvement of Flora and Fauna (emergence of the Ozone layer) Paleozoic Era
541 million

still cooling & an increase of oxygen (first multi-cellular organisms) Proterozoic Eon
2.5 billion

still cooling, water masses, photosynthesis & first signs of oxygen (emergence of single-celled organisms) Archean Eon
4 billion

earth gradually cooling, first signs of water & gas escaping (atmosphere without oxygen) Hadean Eon
4.5 billion

gravity causes the accretion of Solar Nebula Formation of Earth
13.8 billion

Big Bang