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: 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?

11,800 BP to 10,100 BP

 11,800 BP to 10,10o0 BP Pre-History Timeline

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.

~ to 10,000 BC: A extinction event resulting in less Mega Fauna.

~ Japan: First pottery vessels.

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

11,500 BC to 10,000BC: Extinction event resulting in less mega-fauna.

 

11,000 BC: By about this date the earliest Finnic settlements had begun.

~ Look for the sometimes catastrophic changes which were taking place about 2,000 years just before and just after this time.

~ California: Arlington Springs Man died on the island of Santa Rosa off the coast.

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

~ Worldwide: A catastrophe know as the Younger Dryas Event occurred, the melting of Ice Age ice. Glacial melt water accumulated in, at least, one colossal freshwater lake in what is now nothern Canada. The lake burst into the Atlantic Gulf Stream, triggering a thousand year regression  in Europe to the cooler, dryer ties of the late Ice Age.

~ The World: The Younger Dryas Event is thought to have lead directly to agriculture marked by the cultivation of cereals.

~ Argentina: First evidence of human settlement in what is now this South American country.

10,900 BC to 9,700 BC: The Younger Dryas cold phase may have depopulated Ireland.

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.

10,000 BP: 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.

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. 

10,000 BP: 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 cprridor.