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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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).