30,000 BCE Earliest evidence of female divinity relics, first "Willendorf" goddess figurines produced.

20,000 BCE Cave paintings depicting dancing shaman

15,000 BCE Cave paintings of male-female pairs

12,000 BCE Neolithic period begins

6500 BCE Early villages and temples in Europe

5000 BCE Introduction of ceramics, metallurgy, and farming

4300 BCE First Kurgan Wave, possible first clash of patriarchal nomad warriors with matriarchal agriculturists

3500 BCE Second Kurgan invasion, Bronze Age begins

2500 BCE Third Kurgan Invasion

1800 BCE Early Migration Period in Europe

1000 BCE Iron Age begins, Germanic tribes settle in Scandinavia

250 BCE Runes first come into use

0 CE Beginning of Common Era

600 CE Earliest ship burials

793 CE Viking Age begins

1000 CE Iceland coverts to Christianity

1220 CE Snorri Srurluson writes the Prose Edda

1250-1300 CE The Codex Regius, or Poetic Edda, composed