Dene-Caucasian Hypothesis
Concise Timetable Of the History of the Na-Dene and Sino-Tibetan Languages
|
Start |
End |
Event / Period |
|
-2.000.000 |
-15.000 |
Paleolithic, the Old Stone Age (ended with close of last ice age) |
|
-1.000.000 |
|
First migration from Africa to (sub-) tropical areas of Eurasia |
|
-100.000 |
-35.000 |
Neanderthal man |
|
-50.000 |
|
Migration to Australia crossing the water barrier |
|
-40.000 |
|
First evidence of human religion and art |
|
-30.000 |
|
Migration to the Americas across "Beringia" |
|
-10.000 |
|
Domestication of plants and animals |
|
-9500 |
|
First evidence of abundant human occupation in North America |
|
-8000 |
Now |
Basque language gets isolated by expansion of Indo-Europeans |
|
-7000 |
|
Amerind family of languages entered the Americas before this date |
|
-7000 |
-3000 |
Na-Dene family of languages entered the Americas between these dates |
|
-4000 |
|
Proto Sino-Tibetan estimated around or before this date |
|
-3000 |
|
Eskimo-Aleut family of languages entered the Americas after this date |
|
-1000 |
|
Archaic Chinese spoken (Old Chinese, OC) |
|
500 |
1000 |
Ancient Chinese spoken (Middle Chinese, MC) |
|
700 |
|
Written Tibetan, WT |
|
|
1227 |
Tangut (Xixia) kingdom existed until this date |
|
1300 |
|
Written Burmese, WB |
