22,300 BP to 20,600 BP

22,300 BP to 20,600 BP timeline of archaeology and prehistory including: La Brea Tar Pits, what is now Russia, What is now France, What is now Poland,

22,100 BP, Kyushu, Japan: Aira Caldera. Ejecta 450km3.

19,000 BP to 14,000 BP: Was a warming period in Ireland and beyond.

~ Harvesting of grain increases in the northern hemisphere.

 

18,000 BP to 10,000 BP: Magdalenian culture left evidence from Portugal to Poland during this period.

~ Russia: In the region Zaraysk, southeast of Moscow, A bison figurine is carved in mammoth ivory. 

17,000 BP to 12,000 BP: Ending of the last Ice Age. Earth begins warming.

 

16,000 BP: The walls of the complex of caves at Lascaux in France are covered, over the years, with a vast number of paintings of animals.

~ U.S.A: At Los Angeles, California La Brea tar pits, apparent marks of cutting on fossils of animal bones suggests human activity in the area at this time.

~ Woolly mammoth remains dating to this time have been found throughout much of the world. 

20,600 BP to 18,900 BP

20,600 BP to 18,000 BP 

20,000 BP, France  Spotted horses at Perch Merle cave, Dordogne were painted about this time. They were discovered for us in December of 1994.

19,000 BP to 14,000 BP: Ireland: A warming period in Ireland and beyond. The ice sheet over much of the island was melting.

 22,000 BP: West Asia, including the Middle East: Aurignacian culture.

~ to 17,000 BP: Solutrean culture may have reached Ireland as it did France, Spain, and england.

 

 

20,000 BP to 12,000 BP: The Magdalenian culture left evidence from Portugal to Poland and beyond during this period.

~ Russia: In the region of Zaraysk southeast of Moscow a bison figurine was carved in mammoth ivory.

~ Sea level was about 100 meters lower than it was in Ca 1990 AD.

~ France: Perch Merle cave painters created two spotted horses during The Magdalenian to upper Soluttrean.

~ Sea level was about 300 feet lower than it was in 2,000 AD.

~ to 13,000 BP, France: Ibex-headed spear thrower from Le Mas d'Azil, Ariege is made. It is now at the Musee de la Prehistoire in Mas d'Azil.

~ to 14,000 BP, Ukraine: Mammoth-bone village in Mezhirich and Ukraine is inhabited.

~ to 17,000 BP: Last Glacial Maximum. Mean sea levels to be lower than 110 to 120 meters lower than at 2,000 BC.

~ to 19,000 or 17,000 BP: Solutrean culture may have reached Ireland as it did France, Spain, and england. Their artifacts dated to around 19,000 before disappearing around 17,000 BP.

18,000 BP to 14,000 BP: Evidence strongly suggests that the Magdalenian culture was present during this period in the area including from Poland to Portugal and is likely to have reached Ireland,

 

 

 

 

17,000 BP to 12,000 BP: Earth: Ending of the last Ice Age. Earth began warming.

18,900 BP to 17,200 BP

 18,900 BP to 17,200 BP

 

18,000 BC, Russia: A bison figurine was carved in mammoth ivory in the region of Zaraysk, south east of Moscow.

~ France: Spotted horses  are painted in Pech Merle cave near Dordogne, France were discovered in December of 1990? Perch Merle painters created two spotted horses.

~  Magdalenian to Upper Solutrean 

~ to 11000 BP, France: An Ibex-headed spear thrower dating from this period was found near Le Mas d'Azil, Argiege, France and now is at the Musee de la Prehistoire in Le Mas d'Azil.

~ 12,000 BC, Ukraine: Mammoth-bone Village in Mezhirich. So, in 20,000 BP what is know was inhabited by humans.

~ to 15,000 Was the last glacial maximum. Mean sea levels may have been 340 to 360 feet lower than  those in 2,000.

~ Sea level was about 300 feet lower than it was 1990 AD.

~ to 10,000 BP: Magdalenian culture people left evidence from Portugal to Poland and a bit in Ireland that they were most likely to have been inhabiting these areas during this time.

~ to 15,000 BP: Last Glacial Maximum. Mean sea levels were 110 t0 120 meters lower than 2,000 BP with the direct implication that many coastal and lower riverine valley archaeological sites of interest are now under water.

17,000 BP to 12,000 BP: Earth: Ending of the last Ice Age. Earth began warming.

~ BP, North America: Human beings lived in the Red Rock Canyon California state park on the Mohave slopes of the Sierra Nevada  mountains of what is now the US.

~ to 10,000 BC: ending of last Ice Age; Earth begins warming

17,000 BP to 12,000 BP: Was a warming period in Ireland and beyond.

~ to 12,000 BP: Harvesting of grain increases.

~ to 13,500 BP: A major extinction even occurred which almost certainly affected Ireland.

17,000 BP to 12,000 BP: Earth: Ending of the last Ice Age. Earth began warming.

~ USA: Human beings lived in the Red Rock canyon California state park area on the Mojave slopes of the Sierra Nevada mountains.

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16,000 BC: Khormusan Industry tools continued to be found on a smaller scale dating to this time.  This Industry seems to have flourished from 42,000 BP to 32,000 BP. About this time Khormusan tools were supplanted by cultures such as the Germanian.

~ The walls of the complex caves at Lascaux, in France, are covered over the years with a vast number of paintings of animals

 15,500 BP to 13,800 BP 

 

 15,500 BP: France: A bison, magnificently etched on a piece of sandstone was left in the French Pyrenees.

~ to 14,000 BP: A major extinction event occurred which probably effected Ireland. (flood?)

15,000 BP to 10,000 BP: Was an Earth-wide warming period (Wikipedia). This was an Earthwide warming period and the end of the last Ice Age.

~ about this time the world's climate began warming after centuries of Ice Age conditions

~ Ireland: Evidence of human population.

~ Ireland: Evidence of sophisticated settlements at Ceide Fields in Co. Mayo dating to about 15,000 BP.

~ Chile: Evidence of village life near the city of Puerto Mott including 12 wooden plank houses, wooden mortars, and grinding stones.

~ In the Near and Middle East Natufians hunted antelope and Persian gazelle and harvested wild nuts and grasses using flint-bladed sickles and showing very significant population expansion.

~ North America: There is abundant evidence of human existence at this time. It has been called the Paleo-Indian Period and was a time of Megafauna. 

~ The principle of the bow and arrow was developed, with yew and elm for the bow, and points of flint for  the arrows.

~ to 12,000 BP: Evidence strongly suggests that Magdalenian culture was present during this period from Poland to Portugal and likely to have reached Ireland.

~ USA: Apparent marks of cutting , on fossils preserved in the La Brea Tar Pits in Los Angeles, California suggests human activity in the area at this time.

~ Needles of bone or ivory are now fine enough to take a thread as thin as a horse hair.

~ Spain: The walls of Altamira cave are ''decorated'' with paintings and engraved images of horse, deer, and above all bison.

~ North America: Archaeological evidence reveals that the central plains by now have widespread human population. 

~ to 10,000 BP, South America: Hunter - gathers have gradually extended their territory far into the south of the continent.

14,700 BP to 12,700 BP A warm period occurred, the Bolling-Allerod warming, at which Ireland is likely to have been repopulated.

 

 

14,500 BP: Peru: People along the coast ate good clams and fished with fine nets.

 

14,000 BP: Spain and France: Astounding cave paintings of mostly animals.

~ to 10,000 BP: During the Mesolithic period(Middle Stone Age)humans continue to improve their tool making skills but are still nomads and hunter-gatherers we find it useful to say and for which there is much evidence, but again we are learning and have much to learn.

~ About this time Britain was probably separated from Ireland by sea level rise.

~ to present:  The Holocene Epoch which some have divided into five parts, the Subatlantic being the present.

~ South and southeast Asia: About this time the Jomon period starts in Japan.

13,000 BC to 8.000 BC: End of the last Ice Age.

~ Called Paleo-Indian Period. Abundant evidence of human habitation in North America. Time of Mega-Fauna.

~ The climate of the Earth began warming  after centuries of Ice Age conditions.

~ In the near Middle East people called Natufians hunted antelope and Persian gazelle and harvested wild nuts and grasses using flint-bladed sickles and showing a very significant population expansion.

13,900 BP to 12,900 BP: The Allerod oscillation. It was a warm moist period in the northern hemisphere near the end of the Last Glacial Period. It raise temperature in the northern region to almost present levels. (2020)

13,800 BP to 12,000 BP: Apparent duration of the Bromme culture in the Baltic region. They have been called  late Paleolithic reindeer hunters.

 

13,040 BP: Vega was the North Star.

13,000 BP: U.S.A: Evidence of Clovis Man hunting mammoth in what is now New Mexico.

Ahrenburg culture in central and east Europe.

~ to 8,000 BC: Called Pale-Indian Period in North America. Lots of people in N.A. during this time of mega-fauna.

~ Younger Dryas event: Glacial melt water began to accumulate, in at least one, colossal fresh-water lake in northern Canada. That lake burst into the Atlantic Gulf Stream triggering year regression in Europe to the cooler dryer times of the Ice Age. This event probably lead to the wide-spread cultivation of cereal and a number of other changes. 

~ the Hibernians probably grew oats.

~ End of the most recent glaciation.

~ USA: A Columbian mammoth dating to about this time is found in the northwest of the country.

10,700 BP: Britain: The Star Carr site in Yorkshire was inhabited by Maglemosian people.

 

13,500 BP: Wooden plank buildings in the south of Chile.

~ First pottery vessels in Japan .

~ Extinction event resulting in less mega-fauna (Wikipedia)

~ to 12,000 BP: Extinction  Event resulting in less mega-fauna.

 13,000 BP to 8,000 BP: Ending of the last Ice Age.

~ North America: Time of mega-Fauna. Called the Paleo-Indian Period. Abundant  evidence of human culture and existence.

~  The climate of the Earth began warming after millennia of Ice Age conditions.

~ In the Near and Middle East people called Natufians hunted antelope and Persian gazelle and harvested wild nuts and grasses using flint bladed sickles and showing a very significant population increase.

~ Earliest evidence of human settlement in Argentina. 

~ U.S.: Arlington Springs man dies on the island of Santa Rosa off the coast of California.

~ Mexico: human remains deposited in caves which are now located off the coast of Yucatan.

~ A catastrophe known as the Younger Dryas Event occurred. Glacial melt water accumulated in, at least, one colossal fresh-water lake in northern Canada. The lake burst into the Atlantic Gulf Stream triggering a thousand year regression in Europe to the cooler dryer times of the late Ice Age.

~ The Younger Dryas Event is thought to have lead directly to agriculture marked by the cultivation of cereals.

12,860 BP to 12,640 BP: Ireland: A bear patella dating to this period bearing butchering marks was found in Alice and Gwendoline Cave in County Clare. It is the earliest physical evidence of human habitation in Ireland.

 

12,000 BP: A canine jaw, discovered in a cave in Mesopotamia, is the earliest evidence of the domestication of dogs. What earlier evidence do you know of? 

~ Sea level rise may have begun as early as this. Sea level was rising.

~ Epigravettian culture in central and east Europe.

~ to the present: the Holocene Epoch, which some divide into five parts; the Sub-Atlantic being the present of those parts. 

11,500 BP to 650 BC: Called the Archaic Period in the Native America history of Arkansas and most of North America.

~ Turkey: First building phase of the "temple complex" at Gobekli Tepe.

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 17,200 BP to 15,500 BP

17,000 BP to 12,000 BP: Earth: Ending of the last Ice Age. Earth began warming. This was an Earth-wide warming period and the end of the last Ice Age.

~ US: Human beings lived in the Red rock Canyon California state park area on the Mojave slopes of the Sierra Nevada mountains. 

~ to 10,000: Ending of the last Ice Age. Earth Begins warming.

~ Solutrian culture in France, Spain, and England.Their artifacts dated to about 19,000 BC before disappearing around 15,000 BC.

16,000 BP to 12,00o BP: Evidence strongly suggests that Magdalenian culture was present during this period from Poland to Portugal and is likely to have reached Ireland.

~ France: The walls of the complex caves at Lascaux are covered, over the years, with a vast number of painting of animals

~ to present AD: Is called the Holocene Epoch which some divide into five parts, the Subatlantic being the present part.

15,700 BC to 14,200 BC: Extinction event resulting in less  Mega-fauna. Extinction event resulting in less  Mega-fauna

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16,000 BC: Khormusan Industry tools continued to be found on a smaller scale dating to this time.  This Industry seems to have flourished from 42,000 BP to 32,000 BP. About this time Khormusan tools were supplanted by cultures such as the Germanian.

~ France: The walls of the complex of caves at Lascaux are covered, over the years, with a vast number of paintings of animals.

16,000 BP to 12,000 BP: Megalithic Period. Humans continue to improve their tool-making skills but are still mostly nomads and hunter gathers. Nomads and natural harvesters may be highly advance in ways we are beginning to learn of.

~ USA: Apparent marks of cutting, on fossils preserved in La Brea tar pits in Los Angeles, California suggests human activity in the area at this time.

~ Woolly mammoths could be found through ought the world!

~ By this time the principle of the bow and arrow was active in Europe. Yew or elm was often used for bow making as was flint for arrow points.

~ to 12,000 BP: Evidence strongly suggest that Magdalenian culture was present during this period from Poland to Portugal and may have reached Ireland.

~ to the present: The Holocene Epoch began. It has been divided into five parts; the Subatlantic being the present.

16,000 BC: Khormusan Industry tools continued to be found on a smaller scale dating to this time.  This Industry seems to have flourished from 42,000 BP to 32,000 BP. About this time Khormusan tools were supplanted by cultures such as the Germanian.

~ The walls of the complex caves at Lascaux, in France, are covered over the years with a vast number of paintings of animals

~ Neanderthals believed to have become extinct in Europe.???

15,000 BP: Needles of bone or ivory are now fine enough to take thread as thin as a h0rse hair.

~ Spain: The walls of Altamira, an extensive cave, are decorated with paintings and engraved images of horses, deer, and above all bison.

~ North America: Archaeological evidence reveals that the central plains by this time had a wide spread human population.

~ South America: Hunter - gatherers gradually extend their territory far into this continent.

14,000 BP to 10,000 BP: During this Mesolithic period humans continued to improve their tool-making skills, but are still nomads and hunter-gathers who will come to be sickly agriculturalists.

 

 

15,700 BC to 14,200 BC: Extinction event resulting in less  Mega-fauna.

 15,000 BC: Needles of bone or ivory were fine enough to take a thread as fine as horse hair.

~ Archaeological evidence reveals that the central plains of North America by this time had a widespread human population.

~ Spain: The walls of a extensive cave at Altamira have abundant paintings of and engraved images of horses, deer and a very great many bison.

~ to 10,000 BC, South America: Has a going population of "hunter gatherers."

 6,700 BC: to 5,000 BC:

6,500 BC to 200 AD: The San Diegito-Pinto tradition and Chihuahua tradition flourished in the southwest o6,400 BC: Historical grand solar minima continues.

~ The neolithic town of Catal Huyuk has rectangular rooms with windows, a design with lasting appeal.

 

6,400 BC: Historical grand solar minima continues.

6,220 BC: Historical grand solar minima continues.

6,200 BC: Climate cooling event was in process.

6,000 BC: Middle Holocene.

6,000 BC: Middle Holocene.

~ Opium used by people in Lower Mesopotamia.

~ Chaldean  texts discovered dating to this time. They were found in the temple of Nippur, Mesopotamia.

~ 6,000 BC to 4000 BC: Permanent settlement in North America accelerated for 2,000 years (Fagan) 

~ to 5,000 BC: The end of global de-glaciation which followed the last Global Maximum

~ to 5,000 BC: Sea level rose about 100 meters.

~ Nemed in Ireland, it has been said.

~ Middle Holocene

~ to 4,000 BC: Permanent settlement in North America accelerated for 2,000 years. (Fagan)

~ Ancestors of Penutian-speaking peoples settled in the northwestern plateau of what is now the US.

~ Nomadic hunting bands roamed subarctic Alaska following herds of caribou and other game animals.

~ Aleuts began to arrive in the Aleutian Islands.

~ to 4,000 BC: An acceleration of permanent settlements in N.A. lasted for 2,000 years.

 

5,900 BC: The Neolithic town of Khirokitia in Cyprus  had a paved street public street with lanes leading off to courtyards of round tent-like houses.

5,990 BC: Historical solar grand minima.

5,980 BC: Grapes used for wine making.

5,900 BC: Humans were settled in Malta.

5,900 BC: The Neolithic town of Khirokitia in Cyprus  had a paved street public street with lanes leading off to courtyards of round tent-like houses.

5,800 BC, Turkey: Pottery of this date survived in the neolithic site of Catal Huyuk. Fragments of cloth survive because they are carbonized in a fire.

~ North America: Human group adapt to conditions of northern Canada and then Greenland.

5,700 BC, North America: Cataclysmic eruption of Mount Mazama in what is now Oregon, USA.

5,600 BC, Lebanon: From this date Lebanon is mentioned in Sumerian tablets and in the Epic of Gilgamesh. It was the center of the Canaanite City States. Byblos kept records of dealing with Lebanon. The Bible contains references to Canaan Lebanon. 

 

 

5,500 BC: Evidence of cheese making in Poland.

~ In 1975 AD at artificial  mound in Labrador, Fidel found a bird bone whistle along with socketed bone points and much more. In that same year a body was found in the mound face down. Walrus tusk and large quartzite knives were also found in the same mound dated to this time.

~ to 500 AD, North America: Oshara Tradition, a Southwest Archaic Tradition, arises in north-central Mexico, the san Juan Basin, the Rio Grand Valley in Southern Colorado, and southeastern Utah, US.

5,450 BC: Carbon 14 content in tree ring seem to be due to above normal solar activity.

5,400 BC: The city of Eridu founded and called Sumeria's first city. It did not end until about 500 BC. The state of Eridu was started. It ended about 500 BC. The city of Eridu founded and called Sumatra's first city.

 

 

 

 

5,300 BC: Dated stone tablet with pictographic writing, found in Kish, Mesopotamia. 

~ Irrigation farming in Fertile Crescent prior to this date.

~ to 500 AD: Native Americans took native copper to make tools, weapons, and art in what is now north west Great Lakes region. From the earliest days, the Old Copper Culture traded widely.

~ Shortly after this date Sumerians were active.

 

5,200 BC: First recorded pottery in Finland starts with Comb Ceramic culture.

 

 

5,000 BC: After this date the Sumerians were making their mark in the Fertile Crescent  and greatly affecting the Akkadians and Egyptians.

~ Irrigation farming began in the fertile crescent prior to this date.

~ Girsi began as a Copper Age state about this time and ended about 2,100 BC.

~ Village and farm communities existed along the Hwang-ho in China.

~ to 4,000 BC: Near East: Painted pottery made on slow wheels. More and more massive mud-brick temples were constructed at the site of Eridu.

~ North America: Kame grave users north of the Ohio river were transitioning to man-made burial mounds. They were also traveling the waters in in birch-bark and dugout canoes and making beads of native copper.

~ The state of Bad-tibira was started and ended about 2,300 BC.

~ Mari started as a copper using state and ended in 1759 BC.

~ Cultivation of food crops began in Mesopotamia.

~ Native Americans in the Pacific northwest from Alaska to California develop a fishing economy, salmon as a staple. They also worked and traded large circular copper objects.

~ to about 500 AD North America: The Old Copper Culture of the Great Lakes area hammers the metal into various tools. ornaments, etc. Native Americans took native copper to make art, weapons, and tools in the Great Lakes region. This Old Copper Culture traded widely. Copper smelted around Isle Royal on Lake Michigan!! Copper was mined at this time. Rich native copper was probably collected there even earlier. On Isle Royal a pictograph of a ship which looks very capable of a sea voyage has been found and recorded.

~ Nasty, near devastating, traumatic events occur around this time!!!!!!!!

~ North America: Squash and chile are the first plants cultivated in NA. They were cultivated in Tehuacan valley of what is now Mexico.

~ Fomorians in and around Ireland~.

~ to 3,00o BC, North America: There was a 2,000 year decline in population (Fagan)

~ Sumerians arrive in Mesopotamia.

5,000 BC: Kame grave users north of the Ohio River were transitioning to man made burial mounds. They were also traveling the waters in birch-bark and dugout canoes and making beads of native copper.

~ Irrigation farming began in the Fertile Crescent prior to this date.

~ North America:  Kame grave users north of the Ohio River were transitioning to man-made burial mounds. They were also traveling the waters in dugout and birchbark canoes, and making  beads of native copper.

~ North America: Increase in mean annual temperature and decrease in rainfall in the Mississippi valley.

~ Ireland: Evidence of land clearance for agriculture has been found for this date in the southwest of the island.

~ to 4000 BC: Painted pottery made on slow wheels. More and more mud brick temples constructed at the site of  Eridu.

~ China: Village farm communities along the Wang-ho River are in evidence.

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5,000 BC: Or 7,000 BP, may be the time of the flood Noah informs us of. Pretty recent as these things go. There does seem to have been a nasty event around this time.

~ to 2,300 BC: Duration of the state of Bad-tibira.

~ to 1,759 BC: Mari lasted as a copper using state.

~ to 2,100 BC: Girsi began as a Copper Age state and ended.

~ North American peoples made and used basketry and netting as well as a variety of stone tools. Ate a variety of plants and animals. Ate some acorn. Hickory nuts seemed vital where available.

~ Maritime Archaic Period (and lasts until the 18th ? century)in Newfoundland, eastern Canada, northern New England, and more. Has been associated with Red Ocher cultural burials.

~ Maritime Archaic culture people practiced deep sea fishing of codfish, swordfish 7000 years ago. They hunted sea mammals in subarctic areas. They engaged in long distance trade of white chert. Had longhouse settlements and used boat-topped temporary housing.

~ to 2,500 BC: Hypsithermal Interval,  a warming period within the Holocene epoch.  

~ to 2450 BC: Nippur also began as a Copper Age state at about this time.

~ Sri Lanka: There is substantial evidence that the island had a land link to India at this time.

~ to about 3200 BC, Egypt: Predynastic Upper Egypt began as a Copper Age state and came to an end as noted above.

~ North America: This date marks the Mid-Archaic period on the continent.

            

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