c. 1900000 BCE–c. 143000 BCE
*Homo erectus* range and dispersal across Africa and Eurasia
Human evolution & hominins · Homo temprano · Dispersión · Taxonomía debatida
*Homo erectus* spans roughly 1.9 million to 143,000 years ago and populations distributed across Africa and Eurasia. Taxonomic groupings vary—some researchers separate African *H. ergaster* from *H. erectus* sensu stricto—so the name covers both real variation and a classification debate. Its long duration includes coexistence with other hominins, not one uniform human expansion.
Precision, calendar, and review
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- End
- year · approximate
- Calendar and convention
- Historical-era years; the source calendar is not identified. No conversion of days is assumed.
- Year zero
- The scale goes from 1 BCE to 1 CE without year zero. Changing era names changes labels only.
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Sources
- humanorigins.si.edu (opens in a new tab)
Source provenance and scope
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- Source updated
- 2024-01-03
- Bibliographic date checked
- 2026-09-23
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