22,300 BP to 20,600 BP timeline of archaeology and prehistory including: La Brea Tar Pits, what is now Russia, What is now France, What is now Poland,
22,100 BP, Kyushu, Japan: Aira Caldera. Ejecta 450km3.
Timeline of mostly prehistory: 22,000 BC to 5000 BC. New items added frequently. Connection to other timelines. Translation app for your language. Includes: Climate change, Ice Age, Ireland, Mexico, North America, the world, Earth, 8000 BC, Anatolia, California, Chile, Japan, Kish, Nevada, Poland, Solar grand minimum, Antarctica, Argentina, Catal Huyuk, China, Earth precession, figs, Moscow, Norway, Spain, Turkey, USA, atlatl, copper, etc., France, Japan.
22,100 BP, Kyushu, Japan: Aira Caldera. Ejecta 450km3.
18,000 BC, Russia: A bison figurine was carved in mammoth ivory in the region of Zaraysk, south east of Moscow.
~ 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.
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
~ 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.
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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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.
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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
~ Neanderthals believed to have become extinct in Europe.???
6,500 BC to 200 AD: The San Diegito-Pinto tradition and Chihuahua tradition flourished in the southwest o6,400 BC: Historical grand solar minima continues.
6,400 BC: Historical grand solar minima continues.
6,220 BC: Historical grand solar minima continues.
6,200 BC: Climate cooling event was in process.
6,000 BC: Middle Holocene.
6,000 BC: Middle Holocene.
5,000 BC: Or 7,000 BP, may be the time of the flood Noah informs us of. Pretty recent as these things go. There does seem to have been a nasty event around this time.
~ to 2,300 BC: Duration of the state of Bad-tibira.
~ to 1,759 BC: Mari lasted as a copper using state.
~ to 2,100 BC: Girsi began as a Copper Age state and ended.
~ North American peoples made and used basketry and netting as well as a variety of stone tools. Ate a variety of plants and animals. Ate some acorn. Hickory nuts seemed vital where available.
~ Maritime Archaic Period (and lasts until the 18th ? century)in Newfoundland, eastern Canada, northern New England, and more. Has been associated with Red Ocher cultural burials.
~ Maritime Archaic culture people practiced deep sea fishing of codfish, swordfish 7000 years ago. They hunted sea mammals in subarctic areas. They engaged in long distance trade of white chert. Had longhouse settlements and used boat-topped temporary housing.
~ to 2,500 BC: Hypsithermal Interval, a warming period within the Holocene epoch.
~ to 2450 BC: Nippur also began as a Copper Age state at about this time.
~ Sri Lanka: There is substantial evidence that the island had a land link to India at this time.
~ to about 3200 BC, Egypt: Predynastic Upper Egypt began as a Copper Age state and came to an end as noted above.
~ North America: This date marks the Mid-Archaic period on the continent.
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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.
~ 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.
~ 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.
~ more nomadic hunters arrived in England.
~ North America: Glaciers were receding.
~ World: More than 40 million animals were obliterated about this time.
~ Asia: Rising sea levels caused by post glacial warming.
~ Agriculture in Mesopotamia.
~ Pig domesticated in China and Turkey.
~ Antarctica: Long term melting of the Antarctica ice sheets has commenced.
~ World: rising sea.
~ First evidence of agriculture in the Levantine corridor.
~ Inland flooding world-wide.
~ Argentina: About this time people were killing and eating doedicurus, a type of glyplodont not far from the present Buenos Aires.
~ (Fiedel in 1987) suggested that there was evidence of the use of the atlatl in North America before this time.
~ Ocean levels risen to near maximum.
~ May date the end of the Ice Age.
~ Fiedel, in 1987, suggested that there was evidence of the use of the atlatl in N.A. before 8,000 BC.
~ to almost 1,000 BC: The Archaic Period or Meso-Indian Period in N.A.
~ The ending of the most recent Ice Age, making large prey extinct and the land more fertile, both promote and enable humans to develop 'permanent' settlements.
~ Human communities in in the Middle East cultivate crops and domesticate animals, in the Neolithic Revolution.
~ Wheat was grown in the Middle East; the first cereal cultivated by man?
~ Emmer and Einkorn are the two types of wheat cultivated as the first in the Neolithic Revolution.
~ A settlement at Jericho subsisted mainly by the cultivation of wheat, one of the small number of communities known to be doing so by this time.
~ Jericho, often quoted as being the first town, grows into a settlement covering ten acres.
~ Sun-dried bricks are used in the construction of buildings in Jericho.
~ The spindle develops naturally in the process of twisting fibers into thread by hand.(?)
~ A community growing and storing grain, surrounded by other groups dependent on gathering food, may have a need for protection from its neighbors.
~ The tower at Jericho may be the world's earliest surviving fortification.
~ Humans cross from eastern Siberia to the northern Japanese island of Hokkaido, according to the earliest traces left by the Jomon culture.
~ As the ice-cap recedes, hunter-gathers move up the eastern side of America into Newfoundland and the Prairie provinces of Canada.
~ As temperatures rise, the sea-level rises, submerging the Bering land bridge and isolating(?) the Siberian immigrants as aboriginal Americans.
~ With the end of the most recent Ice Age, and the withdrawal of the ice sheet, there are drastic changes in ecology in every region.
Note: The Neolithic period includes any settled human community still using exclusively stone tools. The Neolithic Revolution continues to take place at different times around the world as people form settled communities, living by agriculture and the breeding of animals, instead of hunting and gathering.
~ Neolithic communities in eastern Anatolia make implements of hammered copper, making the first tentative steps out of the Stone Age.
~ the atlatl is used in the American South West, probably in hunting mega fauna. Where else was this efficient spear thrower used? When was it used? I have heard Native Americans sing of that instrument using the atlatl.
~ Melt water produced rapid sea level rise.
~ Ireland: Evidence found at the bottom of deep bog has shown advanced farming at this time. In Ceide Fields in the 1980s Patrick Caulfield follow up on a find of early stone work. Since then an area of about 4 sq miles have been investigated. Walled fields, houses, megalithic tombs give evidence that the had be abandoned about 4000 BP. The people raised cattle and used them to plow with a simple plow.~ Norway: Ovre Eiker inhabited. Pulli settlement inhabited.
~ Sea Level rising.
~ Europe: Epegravettian culture in central and east Europe.
~ Ibero-Maurusian,Oranian, and Sebilian, cultures in north and west Africa and Sahara.
~ to present: Holocene Epoch: Some divide this epoch into five parts; the present part being the Subatlantic.
~ Mesopotamia: a canine jaw discovered in a cave may still be the earliest evidence of the domestication of dogs.
~ 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.
~ 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.
~ Ireland: Firm evidence of continuous habitation of homo sapiens sapient by this time.
~ to the present: the Holocene Epoch, which some divide into five parts; the Sub-Atlantic being the present of those parts.
~ Upper Paleolithic: Lupemban culture.
~ West Asian, including the Middle East: Kebarian, Athlitian cultures.
~ East and southeast Asia: Pre-Jomon ceramic culture.
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, Earth: Extinction event resulting in less Megafauna.
11,000 BP: Temporary global chilling, as the Gulf stream pulls southward and Europe ices over.
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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~ Ocean levels to neared their Maximum. Long term melting of the Antarctic ice sheets began. About 40,000,000 obliterated. Inland flooding due to catastrophic glacier melts took place in several regions. Bye, bye Atlantis.
~ Most recent Ice Age is over.
~ Mexico: People are eating chiltepines.
~ USA: People of what is now central Nevada hunted many species of large animals including the ground sloth and the mammoth.
~ USA: Lakeside dwelling dating to this time we found in what is now Oregon. The site was buried and preserved by the eruption of Mount Mazama, remains of baskets ans sandals were found. It was discovered that people probably ate rabbit, sage, bison, sheep, deer, elk, chock-berries, hazelnuts and blackberries.
~ Anatolia: Developed agriculture and farming and settlement in eastern Anatolia.
~ to 9000 BP: Near East: Agricultural communities are already established in Mesopotamia. Evidence of domesticated wheat and barley, sheep, goat pig and cattle found at Jarmo. A baked clay female figure occurred at Mureybit.
~ Africa: Caspian cultures in north an west Africa an Sahara.
~ Barley is cultivated in the Middle East.
~ Catal Huyuk, in Anatolia, is the most extensive surviving example of a neolithic town.