+----------------------------------------------------------------------+ | V. _LATER IRON AGE_ EUROPE 500 B. C. to | | (LA TÈNE CULTURE) ROMAN TIMES.| | | | IV. _EARLIER IRON AGE_ EUROPE 1000-500 B. C.| | (HALLSTATT CULTURE) ORIENT 1800-1000 | | | |III. _BRONZE AGE_ EUROPE about 2000-1000 | | ORIENT " 4000-1800 | | | | II. _NEW STONE AGE_, _NEOLITHIC_ | | 3. _LATE NEOLITHIC_ and | | _COPPER AGE_ | | (TRANSITION PERIOD) EUROPE " 3000-2000. | | | | 2. _TYPICAL NEOLITHIC AGE_ | | (ROBENHAUSIAN, SWISS | | LAKE-DWELLERS) EUROPE " 7000. | | | | 1. _EARLY NEOLITHIC STAGES_ | | (CAMPIGNIAN CULTURE) EUROPE | | | | I. _OLD STONE AGE_, _PALÆOLITHIC_ | | | | _UPPER PALÆOLITHIC_ EUROPE | | 8. AZILIAN-TARDENOISIAN. } " 12,000. | | } | | 7. MAGDALENIAN. (Close of } " 16,000. | | Postglacial time.) } | | } | | 6. SOLUTREAN. } REINDEER, | | } SHELTER, | | 5. AURIGNACIAN. (Beginning } AND CAVE | | of Post-Glacial Time.) } PERIOD. | | } | | _LOWER PALÆOLITHIC_ } | | 4. MOUSTERIAN. (Fourth } " 40,000. | | Glacial time.) } | | | | 3. ACHEULEAN.