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).