10,000 Bc


	m	10th millennium BC
	ma	9th millennium BC

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:

(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.

9560 BC: 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.

Circa 9,000 BC: .

ENVIRONMENTAL CHANGES

Circa 10,000 BC:

, Smilodon , Giant Beaver , Ground Sloth , Mammoth , and American Lion all become extinct.

from Siberia to North America covered in water.

North America : Long Island becomes an island when waters break through on the western end to the interior lake

'' Homo Floresiensis '', the Human 's last known surviving close relative, becomes extinct.

melt.

Circa 9700 BC: Lake Agassiz forms.

Circa 9600 BC: Younger Dryas cold period ends. Pleistocene ends and Holocene begins. Paleolithic ends and Mesolithic begins. Large amounts of previously glaciated land become habitable again.

Circa 9500 BC: Ancylus Lake , part of the modern-day Baltic Sea , forms.

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10,000 Bc