10th millennium BC

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Beginning of the Mesolithic, or Epipaleolithic time period, which is the first part of the Holocene epoch.

Bubalus Period in the Sahara

Events

Circa 10,000 BC:

• Europe: Azilian (Painted Pebble Culture) people occupy Spain, France, Switzerland, Belgium, and Scotland.
• Europe: Sami people occupy Scandinavia and intermarry with peoples already living in Norway, Finland, Sweden, and Russia.
• Europe: Magdalenian culture flourishes and creates cave paintings in France
• Norway: First traces of population in Randaberg
• Egypt: Early sickle blades & grinding disappear and are replaced by hunting, fishing and gathering peoples who use stone tools
• Asia: Cave sites near the Caspian Sea are used for human habitation.
• Japan: The Jomon people use pottery, fish, hunt and gather acorns, nuts and edible seeds. There are 10,000 known sites.
• Mesopotamia: Three or more linguistic groups, including Sumerian and Semitic peoples share a common political and cultural way of life.
• Mesopotamia: People begin to collect wild wheat and barley probably to make malt then beer
• Korea: First pottery appears, probably associated with the beginning of single location agrarian life.
• North America: Paleo-Indian hunter-gatherer societies live nomadically in the countryside.
• North America: Blackwater Draw forms in eastern New Mexico, evidencing human activity
• North America: Folsom people flourish throughout the Southwestern United States.
• North America: Settlement at the Nanu site in the Haida Gwaii of modern day British Columbia begins, starting the longest continual occupation in territory now belonging to Canada.
• The dog is domesticated.
• Persia: The goat is domesticated.

9560 BC: Taking Plato literally (assuming that his figure of 9,000 years before 560 BC was accurate and exact), the city-state of Atlantis sank into the ocean.

Circa 9,000 BC: Near East: First stone structures are built at Jericho.

Environmental changes

Circa 10,000 BC:

• North America: Dire Wolf, Smilodon, Giant beaver, Ground sloth, Mammoth, and American lion all become extinct.
• Bering Sea: Bering land bridge from Siberia to North America covered in water.
• North America: Long Island becomes an island when waters break through on the western end to the interior lake
• Homo floresiensis, the human's last known surviving close relative, becomes extinct.
• World: Sea levels rise abruptly and massive inland flooding occurs due to glacier melt.

Circa 9700 BC: Lake Agassiz forms.

Circa 9600 BC: Younger Dryas cold period ends. Pleistocene ends and Holocene begins. Paleolithic ends and Mesolithic begins. Large amounts of previously glaciated land become habitable again.

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