6,700 BC to 5,000 BC

6,500 BC: The neolithic town of Catal Huyuk had rectangular rooms with windows, a design of lasting appeal. 
~ 200 AD: USA: The San Diegito-Pinto tradition and Chihuahua tradition flourished in the southwest.

~ Ireland: Many Mesolithic sites on the Island dating to this time.
 
6,400 BC, Sun : Historical grand minima solar.
 
6,220 BC, Sun: Historical  grand minima solar.
 
6,000 BC: Middle Holocene.
~ to 4,000 BC: Permanent settlement in N.A. accelerated for 2,000 years. 
~ Chaldean texts discovered dating to this time. Found in the temple of Nippur, Mesopotamia
~ Opium used by people in lower Mesopotamia.
~ Ireland: Nemed there(?)
~ USA: Ancestors of Penutian-speaking people settle in the Northwestern Plateau.
~ Nomadic hunting bands roamed sub arctic Alaska following herds of caribou and other game animals.
~ Aleuts begin to arrive in the Alutian islands.
~ to 4,000 BC: North America: (Fagan) permanent settlements accelerated for 2,000 years.
15,700 BC to 14,200 BC: Extinction event resulting in less  Mega-fauna.
 
5,900 BC: Cyprus: The neolithic town of Khirokitia had paved paved public street with lanes leading off to courtyards of round tent-like houses.

5,990 BC, Sun: Historical grand minima solar.
 
5,800 BC: Pottery if this date survived in the neolithic site of Catal Huyuk. Fragments of woven cloth survived at the site because they were carbonized in a fire.
~ Human groups adapted to the conditions of what is now northern Canada and Greenland, living mainly as hunters of marine mammals.
 

5,710 BC, Sun: Historical solar grand minima.

5,700 BC: U.S.A.: Cataclysmic eruption of Mount Mazama in what is now Oregon.

5,620 BC, Sun: Historical solar grand minima.
 
5,600 BC: Lebanon: From this date Lebanon is mentioned in the 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, Ireland: Before this time Mesolithic builders were building with stone inthe Boyne Valley.

5,500 BC, US: About this time natives of the Pacific northwest began to rely on salmon runs. 

5,400 BC to 500 BC: Lifespan of the state of Eridu. The city of Eridu was founded earlier and has been called Sumeria's first city.

5,300 BC: Dated stone tablet with pictographic writing found in Kish, Mesopotamia.
~  Irrigation farming began in the Fertile Crescent began prior to this date.
~ to 500 AD: Native Americans took native copper to make tools, weapons, and art in  what is now the northwest of the Great Lakes region of N.A. After 5,000 BC the Old Copper Culture traded widely.
15,700 BC to 14,200 BC: Extinction event resulting in less  Mega-fauna.

5,000 BC: Opium used by people in lower Mesopotamia.
~ Squash and chile cultivated in the Tehuacan valley of what is now modern Mexico may be the first plants cultivated in the Americas.
~ Kame grave users north of the Ohio River were transitioning to man mad burial mounds. They were also traveling the waters in birchbark and dugout canoes.
~ Fagan informs us that in North America basketry and netting is used as well as a wide variety of stone tools. People ate a varied diet of plants and animals. Hickory nuts appear to have been vital and acorns were eaten.
~ The Maritime Archaic Period begins at this time and continues into the 18th century in Newfoundland, eastern Canada, northern New England and beyond. It can be associated with Red Ocher tradition including burials. It may reach northern Europe.
~ Maritime Archaic culture people practiced codfish and swordfish deep sea fishing 7,000 years ago. They engaged in long distance trade of white chert, hunted sea mammals in subarctic areas, had long house settlements and used boat topped temporary housing,
~ Hypsithermal Interval: a warming period within the Holocene Epoch.

~ 6th century, Ireland: There was probably a significant comet event. Is there evidence for Scotts leaving Ireland about that time?

 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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