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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:

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.