List of archaeological periods

Table columns:
Continents
Regions
Periods articles
Major periods

Table rows:
cells: Africa
North Africa
North Africa
Paleolithic Epipaleolithic Neolithic c. 7500 BCE Iron Age Roman
cells: Sub-Saharan Africa
Sub-Saharan Africa
Earlier Stone Age Middle Stone Age Later Stone Age Neolithic c. 4000 BCE Bronze Age (3500 – 600 BCE) Iron Age (550 BC – 700 CE) Classic Middle Ages (c. 700 – 1700 CE)
cells: Asia
Near East
Levantine
Stone Age (2,000,000 – 3300 BCE) Bronze Age (3300 – 1200 BCE) Iron Age (1200 – 586 BCE) Historical periods (586 BCE – present)
cells: South Asia
South Asian Periods
cells: East Asia
East Asia Periods
Neolithic c. 7500 BCE Pengtoushan culture
cells: North Asia
North Asia Periods
cells: Korea
Korean Periods
Paleolithic c. 40,000/30,000 – c. 8000 BCE Jeulmun pottery period c. 8000 – 1500 BCE Mumun pottery period c. 1500 – 300 BCE Protohistoric period c. 300 BCE – 300/400 CE Three Kingdoms of Korea c. 300/400 – 668 CE
cells: Japan
Japan Periods
Paleolithic c. 100,000 – c. 10,000 BCE Jōmon period c. 10,000 – 300 BCE Yayoi period c. 300 BCE – 250 CE Yamato period c. 250 – 710 CE
cells: China
China Periods
Paleolithic c. 1.36 million years ago Neolithic period c. 10,000 – 2100 BCE Ancient China c. 2100 – 221 BCE Imperial period c. 221 BCE – 1911 CE Modern period
cells: Americas
North America
North America
Lithic/Paleo-Indian (pre 8000 BCE) Archaic (c. 8000 – 1000 BCE) Woodland (1000 BCE to 1000 CE) Mississippian (800 CE to 1600 CE)
cells: Mesoamerica
Mesoamerica
Lithic/Paleo-Indian (pre 8000 BCE) Archaic (c. 8000 – 1000 BCE) Formative (c. 1000 BCE – 250 CE) Classic (250 – 900 CE) Post-Classic (900 – 1515)
cells: South America
South America (Peru)
Lithic/Paleo-Indian (pre c. 8200 BCE) Archaic (c. 8200 – 1000 BCE) Formative (c. 1000 BCE – 500 CE) Classic (c. 500 – 1200 CE) Post-Classic (c. 1200 – 1900 CE)
cells: Australasia
Australia
Australia
Indigenous Period (60,000 BCE – 1606 CE) European-Contact Pre-Settlement Period (1606 – 1788 CE) Settlement / Pre-Industrial Period (1788 – 1820 CE) Industrial/Modern (1820s – Present) NB Australian archaeology is often simply classified as Pre-historic before European settlement (prior to 1788), and Historic (post-1788) but this is contentious as it infers indigenous Australians had no history, despite having a strong oral tradition.
cells: New Zealand
New Zealand
Archaic period (1000 – 1350/1650 CE) Classic period (1350 – 1800; 1650 – 1800 in eastern South Island)
cells: Oceania
Oceania
cells: Europe
Northern Europe
Northern Europe
Nordic Stone Age Nordic Bronze Age Pre-Roman Iron Age Roman Iron Age in northern Europe (c. 1 CE – 400 CE) Germanic Iron Age (c. 400 – 800 CE) Viking Age (c. 800 – 1066 CE) Medieval period (1066 – c. 1500) Post-medieval period (c. 1500 – c. 1800) Industrial/Modern
cells: Western Europe
Western Europe
Paleolithic (pre c. 8800 BCE) Mesolithic (c. 8800 – 4900 BCE) Neolithic (c. 4900 – 2000 BCE) Bronze Age (c. 2000 – 800 BCE) Iron Age (c. late 11th century BCE – 1 BCE) Roman (c. 56 BCE – 400 CE) Early medieval period (c. 400 – 800 CE) Medieval period (800 – c. 1500) Post-medieval period (c. 1500 – c. 1800) Industrial/Modern
cells: Southeastern Europe
Southeastern Europe
Paleolithic Epipaleolithic Neolithic Chalcolithic Bronze Age Iron Age Hellenistic Roman Byzantine period Ottoman Empire

Questions about this table:
originalText: what is the period which precedes the neolithic revolution
answer: answerTexts: Epipaleolithic