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.

 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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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.