10th millennium BC
(Pleistocene, Paleolithic - 10th millennium BC - 9th millennium BC - other millennia)
Beginning of the Holocene epoch.
Events:
- 10000 BC - Beginning of Jomon era in Japan.
- 9600 BC -- End of the Younger Dryas cold period -- boundary between Pleistocene and Holocene and traditionally the boundary between the Palaeolithic and Mesolithic.
- Before 9000 BC - First stone structures at Jericho.