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10th millennium BC
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9th millennium BC
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- (Painted Pebble Culture) people occupy Spain , France , Switzerland , Belgium , and Scotland .
- occupy Scandinavia and intermarry with peoples already living in Norway , Finland , Sweden , and Russia .
- culture flourishes and creates cave paintings in France
- Egypt : Early sickle blades & grinding disappear and are replaced by hunting, fishing and gathering peoples who use stone tools
- are used for human habitation.
- people use pottery, fish, hunt and gather acorns, nuts and edible seeds. There are 10,000 known sites.
- and Semitic peoples share a common political and cultural way of life.
- Korea : First pottery appears, probably associated with the beginning of single location agrarian life.
- hunter-gatherer societies live nomadically in the countryside.
- , evidencing human activity
- people flourish throughout the Southwestern United States .
- of modern day British Columbia begins, starting the longest continual occupation in territory now belonging to Canada .
- The Dog is domesticated.
- is domesticated.
Taking
Plato literally (assuming that his figure of 9,000 years before
560 BC was accurate and exact), the city-state of
Atlantis sank into the ocean.
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Lake Agassiz forms.
Younger Dryas cold period ends.
Pleistocene ends and
Holocene begins.
Paleolithic ends and
Mesolithic begins. Large amounts of previously glaciated land become habitable again.
Ancylus Lake , part of the modern-day
Baltic Sea , forms.
