10,100 BC to 8,400 BC

10,100 BC to 8,400 BC: A prehistory timeline; including the end of the most recent Ice Age, giant ground sloth still around, and historical solar grand minima

 

10,000 BC: The Chaldeans may have been a people by this time. Their land was along a bit of the Persian Gulf, Bit-Ykin. They were considered immigrants there not long after the flood. Much later the name came to be the name of a social class and and Chaldee came to name a highly educated class of literate wise men. 

~ Ireland: By this time the land was being repopulated. Evidence of people in Ireland.

~ Ocean levels to near their maximum and raising.

~ Long time melting of the antarctic ice sheets begins.

~ Inland flooding due to catastrophic glacier melt takes place in several regions.

~ Obliteration of about 40,000,000 humans about this time!? 

~ Bye, bye Atlantis.

~ 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.

~ Sea level was about 300 feet lower than it was in 2000 AD.

~ to present: Recovery from "Noah's Flood." The Holocene Epoch which many divide into five parts. The Sub-Atlantic being the 5th and present part.

~ Most recent Ice Age is over

~ Humans were eating chiltepines in Mexico.~ USA: People of what is now central Nevada hunted many species of large game including the ground sloth and mammoth.

~ USA: A lakeside dwellings dated to this time was found in what is now the state of Oregon. The site was buried and preserved by the eruption of Mount Mazama. Remains of baskets and sandals.

~ Most recent Ice age was over.

~ Humans were eating chiltepines in Mexico.

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

~ USA: A lakeside dwelling was found in what is now the state of Oregon. The site was buried and preserved by the eruption of Mt. Mazama. Remains of baskets and sandals were found. It was found that the people probable ate: rabbit, bison, bear, sheep, deer, elk, sage, chokeberries, hazelnuts, and black berries.

~ Turkey: Well developed agriculture and farming around settlements in eastern Anatolia.

~ to 7000 BC: Near East: Agricultural communities.

~ First evidence of agriculture in the Lavantian corridors.

10,000 BP to present: Recovery from "Noah's Flood." The Holocene Epoch which many divide into five parts. The Sub-Atlantic being the 5th and present part.

~ Ireland, County Clair: Considerable evidence of humans in Ireland by this time.

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

~ USA: A lakeside dwelling was found in what is now the state of Oregon. The site was buried and preserved by the eruption of Mt. Mazama. Remains of baskets and sandals were found. It was found that the people probable ate: rabbit, bison, bear, sheep, deer, elk, sage, chokeberries, hazelnuts, and black berries.

~ Turkey: Well developed agriculture and farming around settlements in eastern Anatolia.

~ to 7000 BC: Near East: Agricultural communities.

~ Upper Paleolithic: Magosian culture.~ South, central, northeast Asia: Khandivili culture.

~ Ireland: There is  evidence that there were people in what is now countyClair by this time.

9,500 BC to 650 BC: Archaic Period of the Native American history (of Arkansas) and most of North America.

9,500 BC, North America: Archaic Period in the Native American prehistory of Arkansas and most of North America.

~ First building phase of the temple complex at Gobekli Tepe.

9,170 BC: Historical solar grand minimum.

9,000 BC: Thailand: Grain farming began in the Thai area before this date. By this date betel, bean, pea, pepper, and cucumber may have been grown.

~ to about 5,500 BC: There is strong evidence that the Spirit Cave near Mae Hong Son Province of NW Thailand was occupied.

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

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

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

~ The state of Jericho begins about this time and comes to an end at 1573 BC.

~ In North America glaciers were receding

~ Around the world about 40,000 animals were obliterated.

~ In Asia and the world sea levels were rising caused by climate warming and glacial melt.

~ Domestication of the pig in China and Turkey.

~ Antarctica: Long term melting of  the Antarctic ice cover has started.

~ First evidence of agriculture in the Levantine corridor dates to about this time.

~ Figs were apparently cultivated in the Jorden River valley.

~ Inland flooding worldwide.

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

~ Fiedel in 1987 suggests that there is evidence of use of atlatl in North America before this time.

~ Ocean levels rose to near maximum.

~ This time may date the end of an Ice Age. The ending of the most recent Ice Age, making large prey extinct and the land more fertile -?- both promote and enable humans to develop of permanent settlements.

~ to almost 1000 BC: is the duration of the Archaic Period or Meso-Indian Period in N.A.

~ Human communities in the Middle East cultivated crops and domesticated animals in the Neolithic Revolution.

~ Wheat was grown in the Middle East and may be the first cereal cultivated by man.

~ Emmer and Einkorn are the two types wheat as perhaps the first crops in the Neolithic Revolution.

~ Sheep are the first farm animals of which evidence of domestication survives, from a settlement in northern Iraq.

~ Fiedel 1987,  suggests that there is evidence of use of the atlatl in NA before this date. 

~ Lithic stage ended.

~ Ocean levels risen to near their maximum.

~ to 1,000/2,000 BC called the Archaic Period. The end of the Ice Age.

~ 7,790 BC: Earth precession at +11.75 degrees. 

~ Middle East: Goats have been domesticated.

~ Asia: Evidence of dogs having been domesticated from wolves by this time.

~ Middle East: Flint tools dating to this time from north and central Arabia used by hunter harvesters evidenced.

~ Middle East: Clay vessels and modeled human and animal terracotta figurines are produced at Ganj Dareh in western Iran.

~ It is said that in this world by this time In the exchange of goods, a three dimensional combination of an accounting/inventory  system and medium of exchange was practiced.

~ People of Jericho were making bricks out of clay, then hardened in the sun. The settlement had grown to 8 to 10 acres o9f houses and had substantial walls.

~ Marks the ending of the most recent  Ice age. It has been said with good reason that this led to making large pray extinct and the land more fertile which prompted and enabled humans to develop permanent settlements.

~ This has been called the time of Neolithic Revolution; which included human communities in the Middle east cultivating crops and domesticating animals.

~ Wheat is grown in the Middle East. Some have thought that this was the first cultivation of cereal by man. Emmer and Einkorn are the two types of wheat cultivated as crops representative of the "Neolithic Revolution"

it has been said.

~ The spindle for spinning thread is well developed by this time.

~ Grain growing and storing communities are finding a need to protect themselves and their grain.

~ The tower at Jericho seems to be one of the earliest fortifications in the world.

~ Japan: According to the earliest traces left by the Jomon culture, humans have crossed from eastern Siberia to the northern island of Hokkaido.

~ As the ice cap recedes, ''hunter-gathers" move up the east side of America into N and Newfoundland the prairie provinces of  Canada. 

~ As temperatures warm, sea levels rise, submerging the land-bridge and and isolating Siberians as the aboriginal Americans.

~ with the ending of the most recent Ice Age, and the withdrawal of the ice sheet, there are major changes of ecology and climate in nearly every region.

~ The Neolithic period is extent for many around and after this time. Any human community at this time and after still using exclusively stone tools may be called a Neolithic culture.

~ Iraq: Evidence of the keeping of sheep in the north. Sheep from the Ark?

~ Discovery of copper in the Middle East.

~ Temporary global chilling as the Gulf Stream pulls southward and Europe ices over.

~ Trade routes around the Mediterranean for items like flint and salt were well used.

~ Evidence is available that the settlement of the Mediterranean isles begins at about this time.

~ About this time the Leacher Sea, northwest of Frankfurt, formed when a volcano blew out to form a caldera.

~ Neolithic culture began in the Near East.

~ Cave sites near the Caspian Sea are used for human habitation.

~ Azilian Culture, Painted Pebble Culture, people occupy Spain, France, Switzerland, Belgium, and Scotland apparent.

~ Magdalenian culture flourishes and creates cave paintings in France.

~ The state of Jericho started about this year and ended in 1573.

~ The State of Upper Egypt(pre-dynastic peri0d) began and ended about 3,200    ~ Near East: First stone structures were built at Jericho. 

~ Egypt: Early sickle blades and grinding stones disappear and are replaced by hunting, fishing, and gathering peoples who used stone tools.

~ Figs were apparently cultivated in the Jordan River valley.

~ Evidence of the keeping of sheep in northern Iraq.

~ Discovery of copper in the Middle East.

~ Temporary global chilling as the Gulf  Stream  pulls southward and Europe ices over.

~ The Younger  Dyas Catastrophe included glacial melt water accumulating in, at least, one colossal freshwater lake in northern Canada. That lake burst into the Atlantic Gulf  Stream, triggering a thousand year regression in Europe to the cooler, ryer times of the Ice Age.

~ Trade routes around the Mediterranean for items like flint and salt were well used.

~ Neolithic culture has begun in ancient Near East.

~ Solutre Begins.

~ Egypt: Early sickle blades and grinding stones disappear and are replaced by hunting, fishing, and gathering people who use stone tools.

~ Figs were apparently cultivated in the Jordan River valley.

~ Evidence of the keeping of sheep in northern Iraq.

~ "Discovery" of copper in the Middle East.

~ Temporary global chilling as the Gulf Stream pulls southward and Europe ices over.

~ Younger Dryas Event was a catastrophe. Glacial melt water accumulated in at least on colossal freshwater lake in what is now northern Canada. That lake burst into the Atlantic Gulf Stream triggering a thousand year regression in Europe to the cooler, dryer times of the late Ice Age.

~ Mediterranean Sea: There were trade routes around the Sea for items like flint and salt which were well used.

~ Evidence of settlements on Med. Sea islands about this time is available.

~ Germany: Laacher See, northwest of Frankfurt, was formed when a volcano blew out to form a caldera.

~ About this time Neolithic culture had begun in the ancient Near East.

~ Egypt: The state of Upper Egypt (predynastic period) began about this time and ended about 3200 BC.

~ Near East: Neolithic culture began here about this time.

~ Near East: First stone structures at Jericho are built.

~ Egypt: Early sickle blades and grinding stones disappeared and were replaced by hunting, fishing, and gathering people who use stone tools appeared!

9,000 BC: The State of Jericho started about this time and ended in 1573 BC.

~ The state of Upper Egypt(predynastic period)began about this year and ended about 3,200 VC. 

~ Neolithic culture began in ancient Near East.

~ Near East: First stone structures at Jericho are built.

~ Europe; House hunting begins Solutre.(?)

~ Egypt: Early sickle blades and grinding stones disappear and are replaced by hunting, fishing, and gathering peoples who use stone tools.

8,550 BC, Russia: Kurile Lake, Kamchatka Peninsula. Kurile Lake was formed about 6440 BC. Ejecta 140 t0 170 km3.

8,500 BC: Natufian culture of Western Mesopotamia harvested wild wheat with flint-edged sickles.

~ Boats are in evidence (McEvedy)

~ Domesticated dogs in in Europe. (McEvedy)

~ Andean peoples had domesticated chile peppers and two kinds of bean. 

8,300 BC: Atlatl used in Florida before this date *Fagan)

8,220 BC: grand solar minima, historical.

8,000 BC8,000 BC: Well developed sea-culture at the eastern end of the eastern end of the Mediterranean sea. Ship building and wide ranging sea trade. This was going on over 10,000 years ago!

~ Sea going canoes on the islands of the East Indies.

~ Egyptian ships capable of carrying elephants. 

~ First (re)settlements  in Crete.

~ A well developed  N. A. culture of some continuity extents back to at least this time.

~ Sufficient rain falls on the North American southwest to support many large animal species: mammoth, mastodon, bison which soon begin to go extinct.

~ Hunters in the North America South west use the atlatl in preference to the Bow and arrow.

~ to 2,000 BC: Now called the Archaic stage in North America.

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

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

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

~ In North America glaciers were receding

~ Around the world about 40,000 animals were obliterated.

~ In Asia and the world sea levels were rising caused by climate warming and glacial melt.

~ Domestication of the pig in China and Turkey.

~ Antarctica: Long term melting of  the Antarctic ice cover has started.

~ First evidence of agriculture in the Levantine corridor dates to about this time.`

~ Inland flooding worldwide.

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

~ Fiedel in 1987 suggests that there is evidence of use of atlatl in North America before this time.

~ Ocean levels rose to near maximum.

~ This time may date the end of an Ice Age. The ending of the most recent Ice Age, making large prey extinct and the land more fertile -?- both promote and enable humans to develop of permanent settlements.

~ to almost 1000 BC: is the duration of the Archaic Period or Meso-Indian Period in N.A.

~ Human communities in the Middle East cultivated crops and domesticated animals in the Neolithic Revolution.

~ Wheat was grown in the Middle East and may be the first cereal cultivated by man.

~ Emmer and Einkorn are the two types wheat as perhaps the first crops in the Neolithic Revolution.

~ Sheep are the first farm animals of which evidence of domestication survives, from a settlement in northern Iraq.

~ Fiedel 1987,  suggests that there is evidence of use of the atlatl in NA before this date. 

~ Lithic stage ended.

~ Ocean levels risen to near their maximum.

~ to 1,000/2,000 BC called the Archaic Period. The end of the Ice Age.

~ 7,790 BC: Earth precession at +11.75 degrees. 

~ Middle East: Goats have been domesticated.

~ Asia: Evidence of dogs having been domesticated from wolves by this time.

~ Middle East: Flint tools dating to this time from north and central Arabia used by hunter harvesters evidenced.

~ Middle East: Clay vessels and modeled human and animal terracotta figurines are produced at Ganj Dareh in western Iran.

~ It is said that in this world by this time In the exchange of goods, a three dimensional combination of an accounting/inventory  system and medium of exchange was practiced.

~ People of Jericho were making bricks out of clay, then hardened in the sun. The settlement had grown to 8 to 10 acres o9f houses and had substantial walls.

~ Marks the ending of the most recent  Ice age. It has been said with good reason that this led to making large pray extinct and the land more fertile which prompted and enabled humans to develop permanent settlements.

~ This has been called the time of Neolithic Revolution; which included human communities in the Middle east cultivating crops and domesticating animals.

~ Wheat is grown in the Middle East. Some have thought that this was the first cultivation of cereal by man. Emmer and Einkorn are the two types of wheat cultivated as crops representative of the "Neolithic Revolution"

it has been said.

~ The spindle for spinning thread is well developed by this time.

~ Grain growing and storing communities are finding a need to protect themselves and their grain.

~ The tower at Jericho seems to be one of the earliest fortifications in the world.

~ Japan: According to the earliest traces left by the Jomon culture, humans have crossed from eastern Siberia to the northern island of Hokkaido.

~ As the ice cap recedes, ''hunter-gathers" move up the east side of America into N and Newfoundland the prairie provinces of  Canada. 

~ As temperatures warm, sea levels rise, submerging the landbridge and and isolating Siberians as the aboriginal Americans.

~ with the ending of the most recent Ice Age, and the with drawal of the ice sheet, there are major changes of ecology and climate in nearly every region.

~ The Neolithic period is extent for many around and after this time. Any human community at this time and after still using exclusively stone tools may be called a Neolithic culture.

~ Most recent Ice Age was over.

~ People were eating chiltepines in Mexico.

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

~ Lakeside dwelling dating to this time was found in what is now Oregon, California. The site buried and preserved by the eruption of Mt. Mazama. Remains of baskets and sandals were found. It was discovered that the people probably ate rabbet, sage, bison, bear, sheep, deer, elk, chokeberries, hazelnuts, and blackberries.

~ Developed agriculture farming, and settled home life in eastern Anatolia.

~ 7,000 BC: Near East: Agricultural communities are already established (re-established) in Mesopotamia. Evidence of domesticated wheat and barley, and sheep goat, pig, and cattle found at Jarmo. a baked clay female figure occurred at Mureybet.

~ Caspian culture in north and west Africa and Sahara.

~ Well developed sea culture at the eastern end of the Mediterranean Sea: ship building, wide ranging sea trade.

~ Sea going canoes in the East Indies.

~ Egyptian ships capable of carrying elephants. 

~ Crete: First (re)settlements.

~ A well developed culture in Lebanon goes back to this time.

~ North America: In the Southwest enough rain falls to support many large animal species including mammoth, mastodon, and a bison species which are nearing a time of extinction.

~ North America: In what is now the American Southwest, hunters use the atlatl.

~ to 2000 BC: Has been called The Archaic stage in North America.

~ East and southeast Asia: Hoabinhian culture.

~ Ireland: Mesolithic people widespread over the land.

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 6,700 BC: to 5,000 BC:

6,500 BC to 200 AD: The San Diegito-Pinto tradition and Chihuahua tradition flourished in the southwest o6,400 BC: Historical grand solar minima continues.

~ The neolithic town of Catal Huyuk has rectangular rooms with windows, a design with lasting appeal.

 

6,400 BC: Historical grand solar minima continues.

6,220 BC: Historical grand solar minima continues.

6,200 BC: Climate cooling event was in process.

6,000 BC: Middle Holocene.

6,000 BC: Middle Holocene.

~ Opium used by people in Lower Mesopotamia.

~ Chaldean  texts discovered dating to this time. They were found in the temple of Nippur, Mesopotamia.

~ 6,000 BC to 4000 BC: Permanent settlement in North America accelerated for 2,000 years (Fagan) 

~ to 5,000 BC: The end of global de-glaciation which followed the last Global Maximum

~ to 5,000 BC: Sea level rose about 100 meters.

~ Nemed in Ireland, it has been said.

~ Middle Holocene

~ to 4,000 BC: Permanent settlement in North America accelerated for 2,000 years. (Fagan)

~ Ancestors of Penutian-speaking peoples settled in the northwestern plateau of what is now the US.

~ Nomadic hunting bands roamed subarctic Alaska following herds of caribou and other game animals.

~ Aleuts began to arrive in the Aleutian Islands.

~ to 4,000 BC: An acceleration of permanent settlements in N.A. lasted for 2,000 years.

 

5,900 BC: The Neolithic town of Khirokitia in Cyprus  had a paved street public street with lanes leading off to courtyards of round tent-like houses.

5,990 BC: Historical solar grand minima.

5,980 BC: Grapes used for wine making.

5,900 BC: Humans were settled in Malta.

5,900 BC: The Neolithic town of Khirokitia in Cyprus  had a paved street public street with lanes leading off to courtyards of round tent-like houses.

5,800 BC, Turkey: Pottery of this date survived in the neolithic site of Catal Huyuk. Fragments of cloth survive because they are carbonized in a fire.

~ North America: Human group adapt to conditions of northern Canada and then Greenland.

5,700 BC, North America: Cataclysmic eruption of Mount Mazama in what is now Oregon, USA.

5,600 BC, Lebanon: From this date Lebanon is mentioned in 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: Evidence of cheese making in Poland.

~ In 1975 AD at artificial  mound in Labrador, Fidel found a bird bone whistle along with socketed bone points and much more. In that same year a body was found in the mound face down. Walrus tusk and large quartzite knives were also found in the same mound dated to this time.

~ to 500 AD, North America: Oshara Tradition, a Southwest Archaic Tradition, arises in north-central Mexico, the san Juan Basin, the Rio Grand Valley in Southern Colorado, and southeastern Utah, US.

5,450 BC: Carbon 14 content in tree ring seem to be due to above normal solar activity.

5,400 BC: The city of Eridu founded and called Sumeria's first city. It did not end until about 500 BC. The state of Eridu was started. It ended about 500 BC. The city of Eridu founded and called Sumatra's first city.

 

 

 

 

5,300 BC: Dated stone tablet with pictographic writing, found in Kish, Mesopotamia. 

~ Irrigation farming in Fertile Crescent prior to this date.

~ to 500 AD: Native Americans took native copper to make tools, weapons, and art in what is now north west Great Lakes region. From the earliest days, the Old Copper Culture traded widely.

~ Shortly after this date Sumerians were active.

 

5,200 BC: First recorded pottery in Finland starts with Comb Ceramic culture.

 

 

5,000 BC: After this date the Sumerians were making their mark in the Fertile Crescent  and greatly affecting the Akkadians and Egyptians.

~ Irrigation farming began in the fertile crescent prior to this date.

~ Girsi began as a Copper Age state about this time and ended about 2,100 BC.

~ Village and farm communities existed along the Hwang-ho in China.

~ to 4,000 BC: Near East: Painted pottery made on slow wheels. More and more massive mud-brick temples were constructed at the site of Eridu.

~ North America: Kame grave users north of the Ohio river were transitioning to man-made burial mounds. They were also traveling the waters in in birch-bark and dugout canoes and making beads of native copper.

~ The state of Bad-tibira was started and ended about 2,300 BC.

~ Mari started as a copper using state and ended in 1759 BC.

~ Cultivation of food crops began in Mesopotamia.

~ Native Americans in the Pacific northwest from Alaska to California develop a fishing economy, salmon as a staple. They also worked and traded large circular copper objects.

~ to about 500 AD North America: The Old Copper Culture of the Great Lakes area hammers the metal into various tools. ornaments, etc. Native Americans took native copper to make art, weapons, and tools in the Great Lakes region. This Old Copper Culture traded widely. Copper smelted around Isle Royal on Lake Michigan!! Copper was mined at this time. Rich native copper was probably collected there even earlier. On Isle Royal a pictograph of a ship which looks very capable of a sea voyage has been found and recorded.

~ Nasty, near devastating, traumatic events occur around this time!!!!!!!!

~ North America: Squash and chile are the first plants cultivated in NA. They were cultivated in Tehuacan valley of what is now Mexico.

~ Fomorians in and around Ireland~.

~ to 3,00o BC, North America: There was a 2,000 year decline in population (Fagan)

~ Sumerians arrive in Mesopotamia.

5,000 BC: Kame grave users north of the Ohio River were transitioning to man made burial mounds. They were also traveling the waters in birch-bark and dugout canoes and making beads of native copper.

~ Irrigation farming began in the Fertile Crescent prior to this date.

~ North America:  Kame grave users north of the Ohio River were transitioning to man-made burial mounds. They were also traveling the waters in dugout and birchbark canoes, and making  beads of native copper.

~ North America: Increase in mean annual temperature and decrease in rainfall in the Mississippi valley.

~ Ireland: Evidence of land clearance for agriculture has been found for this date in the southwest of the island.

~ to 4000 BC: Painted pottery made on slow wheels. More and more mud brick temples constructed at the site of  Eridu.

~ China: Village farm communities along the Wang-ho River are in evidence.

eridu.

5,000 BC: Or 7,000 BP, may be the time of the flood Noah informs us of. Pretty recent as these things go. There does seem to have been a nasty event around this time.

~ to 2,300 BC: Duration of the state of Bad-tibira.

~ to 1,759 BC: Mari lasted as a copper using state.

~ to 2,100 BC: Girsi began as a Copper Age state and ended.

~ North American peoples made and used basketry and netting as well as a variety of stone tools. Ate a variety of plants and animals. Ate some acorn. Hickory nuts seemed vital where available.

~ Maritime Archaic Period (and lasts until the 18th ? century)in Newfoundland, eastern Canada, northern New England, and more. Has been associated with Red Ocher cultural burials.

~ Maritime Archaic culture people practiced deep sea fishing of codfish, swordfish 7000 years ago. They hunted sea mammals in subarctic areas. They engaged in long distance trade of white chert. Had longhouse settlements and used boat-topped temporary housing.

~ to 2,500 BC: Hypsithermal Interval,  a warming period within the Holocene epoch.  

~ to 2450 BC: Nippur also began as a Copper Age state at about this time.

~ Sri Lanka: There is substantial evidence that the island had a land link to India at this time.

~ to about 3200 BC, Egypt: Predynastic Upper Egypt began as a Copper Age state and came to an end as noted above.

~ North America: This date marks the Mid-Archaic period on the continent.

            

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12,000 BP to 10,400 BP

12,000 BP to 10,400 BP: A timeline of things before with archaeology and ...

usage: N.A. used for North America

 

 

12,000 BP: N.A: Mega fauna: Dire Wolf, Smilodon, Giant Beaver, Ground Sloth, Giant Imperial Mammoth, Jeffersonian Mammoth, Columbian Mammoth.

~ to 5000 BC: The sea level rose 60 meters. 

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.

~ Chile: Wooden plank buildings in so

~ First pottery vessels in Japan.

~ Extinction event resulting in less mega-fauna.(Wikipedia)

11,000 BP ca: Japan: Jomon people use pottery, fish, hunt, and gather acorns, nuts, and edible seeds. There are 10,000 known sites.                      

~ Mesopotamia:  Three or more linguistic groups, including Sumerian and Semitic peoples share a common political and cultural way of life. 

~ Mesopotamia:  People begin to collect wild wheat and barley probably to make beer.

~ Norway: First traces of population at Randaberg.

~ Persia: The goat is domesticated.

~ Sahara: Bubalus Period. 

~ N.A.: Paleo-Indian hunter-harvester societies live nomadically.

~ N.A: Blackwater Draw forms in eastern New Mexico, evincing human activity. 

~N.A: Folsom people flourish throughout the Southwestern United States.

~ N.A: Settlement in the Nanu site in the Queen Charlotte Islands of modern day British Columbia begins, starting the longest continual occupation  in territory now belonging to Canada.

~ Figs were apparently cultivated in the Jordan river valley.

~ Evidence of keeping of sheep in northern Iraq.

~ Discovery of copper in the Middle East.

~ Temporary global chilling as the Gulf Stream pulls southward and Europe ices over.

~ The Younger Dryas Event was a catastrophe. Glacial melt water accumulated in northern Canada in colossal amounts. That water burst into the Atlantic Gulf Stream triggering a thousand year regression in Europe.

~ Trade routes around the Mediterranean for items like flint and salt were well used.

~ Evidence is available for the settlement on Mediterranean Sea islands at about this time.

~ Laacher Sea, northwest of Frankfort, formed when when a volcano blew out to form a caldera about this time

~ Neolithic culture has begun in the ancient Near East at this time.

~ Cave sites near the Caspian Sea are used for human habitation.

~ Azilian or Painted Pebble Pebble Culture people occupy Spain, France, Switzerland, Belgium, Scotland. 

~ Magdalenian culture flourishes and creates cave paintings in France. 

~ The state of Jericho started about this year and ended in 1573 BC,

~ The state of Upper Egypt, predynastic period, began about this year and ended about 3,200 BC.

~ Near East: The first stone structures at Jericho are built.

~ In Europe horse hunting begins Solutre . [?]

~ In Egypt early sickle blades and grinding stones disappeared and are replaced by hunting, fishing, and gathering people.

~ Widespread cultivation of domestic wheat and barley.

~ Gravettian culture in central and east Europe.

~ BC: First evidence of humans in Argentina.

~ BC Arlington Springs man dies on the island of Santa Rosa off the coast of California.

~ Human remains deposited in caves which are now located off the coast of Yucatan.

~ A catastrophe known  as the Younger Dryas event occured. 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.

10,700 BP: Destruction of Atlantis said (by Plato to have been passed to him by Egyptians he trusted) to have occurred around this time.

10,500 BP: Evidence of domesticated gourds and peppers date to this time.

10,000 BC to the present Holocene Epoch, which some divide into five parts

8,500 BC: Natufian culture of western Mesopotamia is harvesting 'wild' wheat with flint-edged sickles.

~ Boats are are in evidence and dogs are domesticated in in Europe (McEvedy 1967).

~ Andean people domesticated chile peppers and two kinds of beans (McEvedy 1967).