The Flints from Hoxne

First stone implements discovered in 1797.

The Red Lady of Paviland

Evidence of first modern humans found in 1823.

The Great Apes

Gorillas are successfully brought to public attention in 1847.

Neanderthals

Neanderthal fossils were first found in Germany in 1856.

Brixham Cave

Evidence and acceptance of human antiquity in 1858-59.

Mammoth La Madeleine

A new kind of evidence for human antiquity is found in 1864.

Inventing the Paleolithic

Neolithic and Paleolithic are first used as prehistoric periods in 1865.

The Cro-Magnon Rock Shelter

Evidence of an advanced tool culture, found in 1868.

Louis Figuier and Primitive Man

Reconstruction of Paleolithic societies available to wider audience, published in 1870.

Cave Paintings at Altamira

The first cave paintings were discovered at Altamira in 1879.

The Age of the Cave Bear

Cave Bear and cave men are a recuring them in early restoration, late 1800s.

A Pithecanthropus from Java

First specimen of Homo erectus is found in 1891.

Sculpting Ancestors

First attempts at three-dimensional sculptures of human ancestors, made in 1910-15.

Piltdown Man

New addition to the human lineage, “discovered” in 1912 but found to be a fake in 1953.

The Sites of Human Prehistory

Map of major finds, published in 1915.