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.

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