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