10th millennium BC

(Pleistocene, Paleolithic10th millennium BC9th millennium BCother millennia)

Beginning of the Mesolithic, or Epipaleolithic time period, which is the first part of the Holocene epoch.
Bubalus Period in the Sahara

Events

  • Circa 10,000 BC– Europe: Azilian (Painted Pebble Culture) people occupy Spain, France, Switzerland, Belgium, and Scotland.
  • Circa 10,000 BC– Europe: Sami people occupy Scandinavia and intermarry with peoples already living in Norway, Finland, Sweden, and Russia.
  • Circa 10,000 BC– Europe: Magdalenian culture flourishes and creates cave paintings in France
  • Sometime before 9000 BC– First stone structures at Jericho, built during the pre-agricultural Natufian culture period
  • Circa 10,000 BC– Norway: First traces of population in Randaberg
  • Circa 10,000 BC– Egypt: Some people believe that Egypt's Great Sphinx of Giza was built around this time.
  • Circa 10,000 BC– Egypt: Early sickle blades & grinding disappear and are replaced by hunting, fishing and gathering peoples who use stone tools
  • Circa 10,000 BC– Asia: Cave sites near the Caspian Sea are used for human habitation.
  • Circa 10,000 BC– Japan: The Jomon people use pottery, fish, hunt and gather acorns, nuts and edible seeds. There are 10,000 known sites. Pottery would not appear in the Near East until 6500BC.
  • Circa 10,000 BC– Mesopotamia: Three or more linguistic groups, including Sumerian and Semitic peoples share a common political and cultural way of life.
  • Circa 10,000 BC– Armenoid people from the Mediterranean Sea can be found from Hungary to Polynesia.
  • Circa 10,000 BC– Iraq, Turkey, and Syria: People begin to collect wild wheat and barley probably to make malt then beer
  • Circa 10,000 BC– Korea: First pottery appears, probably associated with the beginning of single location agarian life.
  • Circa 10,000 BC– North America: Alabama and Paleoindian hunter-gatherer societies live seminomadically in the countryside.
  • Circa 10,000 BC– North America: Blackwater Draw forms in eastern New Mexico, evidencing human activity
  • Circa 10,000 BC– North America: Folsom people flourish throughout the Southwest
  • Circa 10,000 BC– The dog is domesticated.
  • Circa 9,000 BC– Near East: First stone structures are built at Jericho.

Environmental changes

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