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."