Prehistoric Asia
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East Asia

  • Prehistoric China
  • Prehistoric Korea
    Prehistoric Korea
    The Prehistoric Korea is the era of human existence in the Korean Peninsula for which written records did not exist. It, however, constitutes the greatest segment of the Korean past and is the major object of study in the disciplines of archaeology, geology, and...

  • Prehistoric Japan:
    • Japanese Paleolithic
      Japanese Paleolithic
      The began around 50,000 to 30,000 BC, when the earliest stone tool implements have been found, and continued to around 14,000 BC, at the end of the last ice age, which corresponds to the beginning of the Mesolithic Jōmon period...

    • Jomon
  • East Asian Bronze Age

South-East Asia

  • Early history of Burma
  • Prehistory of the Philippines
    Prehistory of the Philippines
    Philippine prehistory covers the events prior to the written history of what would become the Philippine archipelago. The current demarcation line between this period and the early history of the Philippines is 900 AD, which is the date of the first surviving written record to come from the...

  • Prehistoric Thailand
    Prehistoric Thailand
    Prehistoric Thailand may be traced back as far as 1,000,000 years ago from the fossils and stone tools found in northern and western Thailand, an archaeological site in Lampang, northern Thailand. Homo erectus fossils, Lampang Man, dating back to between 1,000,000 – 500,000 years, have been...

  • Early history of Cambodia
    Early history of Cambodia
    Prehistoric Cambodia is sparsely known. The earliest known site in Cambodia is Laang Spean cave which occupies the country's northwest region. Laang Spean cave was first occupied beginning in 7000 BCE Also of significance is the site Samrong Sen which was occupied circa 230 to 500 BCE. From 2000...

  • Prehistoric Malaysia
    Prehistoric Malaysia
    Prehistoric Malaysia may be traced back as far as 200,000 years ago from stone tools found at Bukit Jawa, an archaeological site in Lenggong Perak. The earliest human skeleton in Peninsular Malaysia, Perak Man, dates back 11,000 years and Perak Woman dating back 8,000 years, were also discovered in...

  • Prehistoric Indonesia
    Prehistoric Indonesia
    Prehistoric Indonesia is a prehistoric period in Indonesian archipelago region, spanned from Pleistocene period to about 4th century CE when Kutai edicted the earliest known stone inscriptions in Indonesia...


South Asia

  • South Asian Stone Age
    South Asian Stone Age
    The South Asian Stone Age covers the Palaeolithic, Mesolithic and Neolithic periods in South Asia. Evidence for the most ancient anatomically modern Homo sapiens in South Asia has been found in the cave sites of Batadomba lena and Beli lena in Sri Lanka.In Mehrgarh, in what is today western...

  • Prehistoric India
    Prehistoric India
    "Prehistoric India" may refer to any period in the history of South Asia predating the 3rd century BCE.- By periods :*South Asian Stone Age*South Asian Bronze Age*South Asian Iron Age**Vedic period**Mahajanapadas-See also:*History_of_India#Pre-Historic_era...

    • Prehistoric Tamil Nadu
  • Prehistory of Sri Lanka
    Prehistory of Sri Lanka
    The Prehistory of Sri Lanka dates back to about 125,000 BP and possibly even as early as 500,000 BP and covers the Palaeolithic, Mesolithic and early Iron ages until the ancient history of Sri Lanka...


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