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."

 12,400 BP to 10,700 BP

 

12,300 BP: Atlatl use in Florida before this date (Fagan)

~ more nomadic hunters arrived in England.

12,000 BP: Check out Cessair, the daughter of Noah's son Bith. Christian myth making?

~ North America: Glaciers were receding.

~ World: More than 40 million animals were obliterated about this time.

~ Asia: Rising sea levels caused by post glacial warming.

~ Agriculture in Mesopotamia.

~ Pig domesticated in China and Turkey.

~ Antarctica: Long term melting of the Antarctica ice sheets has commenced.

~ World: rising sea.

~ First evidence of agriculture in the Levantine corridor.

~ Inland flooding world-wide.

~ Argentina: About this time people were killing and eating doedicurus, a type of glyplodont not far from the present Buenos Aires.

~ (Fiedel in 1987) suggested that there was evidence of the use of the atlatl in North America before this time.

~ Ocean levels risen to near maximum.

~ May date the end of the Ice Age.

~ Fiedel, in 1987, suggested that there was evidence of the use of the atlatl in N.A. before 8,000 BC.

~ to almost 1,000 BC: The Archaic Period or Meso-Indian Period in N.A.

~ The ending of the most recent Ice Age, making large prey extinct and the land more fertile, both promote and enable humans to develop 'permanent' settlements.

~ Human communities in in the Middle East cultivate crops and domesticate animals, in the Neolithic Revolution.

~ Wheat was grown in the Middle East; the first cereal cultivated by man?

~ Emmer and Einkorn are the two types of wheat cultivated as the first in the Neolithic Revolution.

~ A settlement at Jericho subsisted mainly by the cultivation of wheat, one of the small number of communities known to be doing so by this time.

~ Jericho, often quoted as being the first town, grows into a settlement covering ten acres.

~ Sun-dried bricks are used in the construction of buildings in Jericho.

~ The spindle develops naturally in the process of twisting fibers into thread by hand.(?)

~ A community growing and storing grain, surrounded by other groups dependent on gathering food, may have a need for protection from its neighbors.

~ The tower at Jericho may be the world's earliest surviving fortification.

~ Humans cross from eastern Siberia  to the northern Japanese island of Hokkaido, according to the earliest traces left by the Jomon culture.

~ As the ice-cap recedes, hunter-gathers move up the eastern side of America into Newfoundland and the Prairie provinces of Canada.

~ As temperatures rise, the sea-level rises, submerging the Bering land bridge and isolating(?) the Siberian immigrants as aboriginal Americans.

~ With the end of the most recent Ice Age, and the withdrawal of the ice sheet, there are drastic changes in ecology in every region.

Note: The Neolithic period includes any settled human community still using exclusively stone tools. The Neolithic Revolution continues to take place at different times around the world as people form settled communities, living by agriculture and the breeding of animals, instead of hunting and gathering.

~ Neolithic communities in eastern Anatolia make implements of hammered copper, making the first tentative steps out of the Stone Age.

 ~ the atlatl is used in the American South West, probably in hunting mega fauna. Where else was this efficient spear thrower used? When was it used? I have heard Native Americans sing of that instrument using the atlatl.

 ~ Melt water produced rapid sea level rise.

~ Ireland: Evidence found at the bottom of  deep bog has shown advanced farming at this time. In Ceide Fields in the 1980s Patrick Caulfield follow up on a find of early stone work. Since then an area of about 4 sq miles have been investigated. Walled fields, houses, megalithic tombs give evidence that the had be abandoned about 4000 BP. The people raised cattle and used them to plow with a simple plow.

~ Norway: Ovre Eiker inhabited. Pulli settlement inhabited.  

~ Sea Level rising.

~ Europe: Epegravettian culture in central and east Europe.

~ Ibero-Maurusian,Oranian, and Sebilian, cultures in north and west Africa and Sahara.

~ to present: Holocene Epoch: Some divide this epoch into five parts; the present part being the Subatlantic. 

~ Mesopotamia: a canine jaw discovered in a cave may still be the earliest evidence of the domestication of dogs.

~ 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. 

~ 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.

~ Ireland: Firm evidence of continuous habitation of homo sapiens sapient by this time.

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

~ Upper Paleolithic: Lupemban culture.

~ West Asian, including the Middle East: Kebarian, Athlitian cultures.

~ East and southeast Asia: Pre-Jomon ceramic culture.

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, Earth: Extinction event resulting in less Megafauna.

11,000 BP: Temporary global chilling, as the Gulf stream pulls southward and Europe ices over.

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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 11,000 BP: Temporary global chilling, as the Gulf Stream pulled southward and Europe iced over.

~ Wide-spread cultivation of 'domestic' wheat and barley. 

10,700 BP: Destruction of  Atlantis said to have occurred at this time.

10,500 BP: South America: Evidence of domesticated gourds and peppers dated to this time.

 

10,000 BP: Evidence of people in Ireland.

~ Ocean levels to neared their Maximum. Long term melting of the Antarctic ice sheets began. About 40,000,000 obliterated. Inland flooding due to catastrophic glacier melts took place in several regions. Bye, bye Atlantis.

~ Most recent Ice Age is over.

~ Mexico: People are eating chiltepines.

~ USA: People of what is now central Nevada hunted many species of large animals including the ground sloth and the mammoth.

~ USA: Lakeside dwelling dating to this time we found in what is now Oregon. The site was buried and preserved by the eruption of Mount Mazama, remains of baskets ans sandals were found. It was discovered that people probably ate rabbit, sage, bison, sheep, deer, elk, chock-berries, hazelnuts and blackberries.

~ Anatolia: Developed agriculture and farming and settlement in eastern Anatolia.

~ to 9000 BP: Near East: Agricultural communities are already established in Mesopotamia. Evidence of domesticated wheat and barley, sheep, goat pig and cattle found at Jarmo. A baked clay female figure  occurred at Mureybit.

~ Africa: Caspian cultures in north an west Africa an Sahara.

 

7,000 BC: Sardinia: A human skeleton was found 2011 in the territory of Arbus. These Mesolithic bones were found in Su Coloru cave of Laerru in northern Sardinia.

~ Barley is cultivated in the Middle East.

~ Catal Huyuk, in Anatolia, is the most extensive surviving example of a neolithic town. 

6,500 BC: The neolithic town of Catal Huyuk has rectangular rooms with windows, a design of lasting appeal.