↑ before Homo (Pliocene)

Lower Paleolithic (c. 2.6 Ma–300 ka)

Oldowan (2.6–1.8 Ma)

Acheulean (1.7–0.1 Ma)

Clactonian (0.3–0.2 Ma)

Middle Paleolithic (300–30 ka)

Mousterian (300–30 ka)

Aterian (82 ka)

Upper Paleolithic (50–10 ka)

Baradostian (36 ka)

Châtelperronian (35–29 ka)

Aurignacian (32–26 ka)

Gravettian (28–22 ka)

Solutrean (21–17 ka)

Magdalenian (18–10 ka)

Hamburg (15 ka)

Ahrensburg (13 ka)

Swiderian (10 ka)