Dawn of time

I was searching for a timeline of world events, and I stumbled upon this: https://www.southampton.ac.uk/~cpd/history.html. It’s a “Timeline of human evolution and cultural development”, as it’s author would describe it, and it’s one of the most useful resources on the topic I’ve seen. I’ve used this script here to extract the relevant tables into CSV format for future processing.

I.COSMOLOGICAL_ANTECEDENTS_ II._HUMAN_ANCESTRY_AND_EVOLUTION__1._Evolution_of_life_on_Earth II._HUMAN_ANCESTRY_AND_EVOLUTION__2._Human_evolution III._CULTURAL_DEVELOPMENT__3._Hunter-gatherer_nomads III._CULTURAL_DEVELOPMENT__4._Agricultural_farming_and_settlements III._CULTURAL_DEVELOPMENT__5._Empires_and_conquests III._CULTURAL_DEVELOPMENT__6._Scientific_Revolution III._CULTURAL_DEVELOPMENT__7._Industrial_Revolution III._CULTURAL_DEVELOPMENT__8._Technological_Revolution IV._PLANETARY_MANAGEMENT__9._Sustainability_Revolution