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."

20,000 BP to 20,300 BP

22,000 BP to 20,3000 BP:

21,000 BP to 17,000 BP: Solutrean Culture may have reached Ireland as it did France, Spain, and England.