Old Stone AgeExploration Modern humans enter Europe c. 45,000 years agoNotable Homo sapiens arrives in Europe; within a few thousand years the Neanderthals are gone. ▲ MattersSaveShareTrace roots Longest chain: The Big Bang → First stars ignite → Supernovae seed heavy elements → The Sun forms → Earth forms → First oceans → First life → Photosynthesis evolves → Great Oxidation Event → Complex cells (eukaryotes) → Multicellular life → First animals → Cambrian Explosion → First vertebrates → Jawed fish → Fish walk onto land → The amniotic egg → The Great Dying → Dinosaurs appear → Asteroid ends the dinosaurs → Early primates → Apes split from monkeys → Human line splits from chimpanzees → Walking upright → First stone tools → Genus Homo appears → Homo erectus → Control of fire → Habitual fire and cooking → Homo sapiens appears → Complex language → Modern humans leave Africa → Modern humans enter Europe Community notesLoading notes… Learn more ranked by votesBookT. Douglas PriceEurope Before Rome ↗Editor's pickVideoSearch on YouTubefirst modern humans in Europe ↗Editor's pick