10th millennium BC
(Pleistocene, Paleolithic – 10th millennium BC – 9th millennium BC – other millennia)
:Beginning of the Mesolithic, or Epipaleolithic time period, which is the first part of the Holocene epoch.
:Bubalus Period in the SaharaEventsCirca 10,000 BC– Beginning of Jomon era in JapanCirca 10,000 BC– first traces of population in Randaberg, NorwayCirca 10,000 BC– corresponds to the star configurations of this time period, but carbon dating suggest 3000BC AfricaCirca 10,000 BC– Suggested earlier date for origin of Sphinx in Egypt AfricaCirca 10,000 BC– Early sickle blades & grinding disappear, replaced by hunting, fishing and gathering peoples who use stone tools Egypt Circa 10,000 BC– Over a period of 50 years polar temperatures rise close to 60 degrees AntarticaCirca 10,000 BC– Cave sites for human habitation are used by the Caspian Sea AsiaCirca 10,000 BC– The Jomon people of Japan use pottery, fish, hunt and gather acorns, nuts and edible seeds. 10k known sites. Japan Circa 10,000 BC– Pottery appears for the first time in Japan, similar pottery use not found in Near East till 3500 years later AsiaCirca 10,000 BC– Proto-Celts (Neolithic man?), occupied much of North Western Europe at this timeCirca 10,000 BC– Three or more linguistic groups sharing a common political and cultural way of life. Mesopotamia Circa 10,000 BC– Sumerian and Semitic speaking peoples are part of this early grouping of peoples. Mesopotamia Circa 10,000 BC– Armenoid can be found from Hungary to Polynesia (many Islands). Mediterraneon in origin Circa 10,000 BC– Sumerian-Sematic myths and legends all point to their ancestral homeland as southern Mesopotamia. Circa 10,000 BC– People began to collect wild wheat and barley likely to make malt then beer Iraq Turkey SyriaCirca 10,000 BC– Mesopotamia, Nile, Indus Valley, and Jomon is among the earliest pottery cultures of the world. JapanCirca 10,000 BC– Early evidence for pottery, usually associated with the rise of agriculture and sedentary living KoreaCirca 10,000 BC– Clovis (11,500-12,500 BP) Folsom (10,500-11,000 BP), and Plano (8,000-10,500 BP) cultures, North America Circa 10,000 BC– Extinct -Dire Wolf, Saber Tooth Cat, Giant Beaver, Ground Slouth, American Lion North America Circa 10,000 BC– Long Island becomes an island when waters break through on the western end to the interior lake North America Circa 10,000 BC– Mammoths (or mastadons) extinction, Paleo indians have cave art of them North America Circa 10,000 BC– Crossing of land bridge from Old to New World sinks.Circa 10,000 BC– Alabama, Paleo-Indian, seminomadic hunter-foragers living countryside and natural shelters Russell Cave North America Circa 10,000 BC– Blackwater Draw in eastern New Mexico, which evidences human activity North America Circa 10,000 BC– Folsom people flourish throughout Southwest at the end of the last Ice Age North America Circa 9600 BC – End of the Younger Dryas cold period—boundary between Pleistocene and Holocene and traditionally the boundary between the Paleolithic and Mesolithic. Much land becomes habitable again
Environmental changesCirca 10,000 BC– the dog is domesticated.Circa 10,000 BC–Homo floresiensis, the human's last known surviving close relative, becomes extinct.Circa 10,000 BC– Ice-free period, which has been put by different researchers everything between year 13000 and 9000 BC.????? AntarticaCirca 10,000 BC– Ice cores from Greenland reveal a temperature increase of almost 59 degrees in the north pole EuropeCirca 10,000 BC– Ice cores from Greenland reveal large scale release of methane hydrates from the sea floor into the atmosphere EuropeCirca 10,000 BC– The climate of the Earth abruptly warms by 20 degrees or more and ends an Ice Age. WorldCirca 10,000 BC– No rain to cause erosion since 10 BC - If water did eroded Sphinx must have been built around this time EgyptCirca 10,000 BC– Younger Dryas Ends WorldCirca 10,000 BC– Rising Sea WorldCirca 10,000 BC– Massive inland flooding due to catastrophic glacier melt WorldCirca 10,000 BC– Sea level rises abrupt WorldCirca 10,000 BC– Glacial Decline WorldCirca 10,000 BC– Last period of glaciation that Earth has experienced was drawing to its close. WorldCirca 10,000 BC– Long Island becomes an island when waters break through on the western end to the interior lake North AmericaCirca 9700 BC – Lake Agassiz is formed.Circa 9500 BC – Ancylus Lake, part of the modern-day Baltic Sea, is formed.Circa 9000 BC – Ice-free period, which has been put by different researchers everything between year 13000 and 9000 BC. AntarticaCirca 9000 BC – Ice free condition in the Antarctic ended about 6000 years ago
Cultural landmarksCirca 10,000 BC– Ceramic of the Jomon culture in Japan is foundCirca 10,000 BC– Neolithic prehistoric statues were made, which were discovered in Nevali Cori and Göbekli Tepe near Urfa in modern-day eastern Turkey,Circa 10,000 BC– Azilian people occupied Southern France and Northern Spain. The Azilian or Painted Pebble culture is also found in Spain France Switzerland Belgium and ScotlandCirca 10,000 BC– Lapps occupied northern Europe and intermarried with the peoples in Norway Finland Sweden and RussiaCirca 10,000 BC– Magdalenian culture flourished in France with their cave paintingsSometime before 9000 BC– First stone structures at Jericho, built during the pre-agricultural Natufian culture period
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