The marks the beginning of the s, and the Fertile Crescent , but would not be practiced widely or predominantly for another 2,000 years. The Würm Glaciation ended, and the beginning Interglacial , which endures to this day, allows the re-settlement of northern regions.
- c. 10,000 BC — Pottery was first produced in Japan. Roberts, J: "History of the World.". Penguin, 1994.
- c. 9,500 BC — There is evidence of the harvesting, though not necessarily of the cultivating, of wild grasses in Asia Minor about this time. Roberts, J: "History of the World.". Penguin, 1994.
- c. 9000 BC — Neolithic culture began in Ancient Near East .
- c. 9000 BC: .
- Bubalus Period in the Sahara .
- (Painted Pebble Culture) people occupy Spain , France , Switzerland , Belgium , and Scotland .
- culture flourishes and creates cave paintings in France .
- hunting begins at Solutré .
- .
- 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.
- .
- appears, probably associated with the beginning of single location agrarian life.
- hunter-gatherer societies live nomadically in the countryside.
- forms in eastern New Mexico , evidencing human activity.
- people flourish throughout the Southwestern United States .
- site in the Haida Gwaii of modern day British Columbia begins, starting the longest continual occupation in territory now belonging to Canada .
- The Dog is domesticated.
- is domesticated.
- at El Abra and Tibitó ( Cundinamarca ). First settlements at Remedios and Yondó ( Antioquia ).
- Azerbaijan : Gobustan Culture(Qobustan).
- , Smilodon , Giant Beaver , Ground Sloth , Mammoth (Giant Imperial Mammoth ( Mammuthus Imperator ), Jeffersonian Mammoth ( Mammuthus Jeffersonii ), Columbian Mammoth ( Mammuthus Columbi ), Woolly Mammoth , and the Mastadon ), Giant Short-Faced Bear , American Cheetah , Scimitar Cats ( Homotherium ), American Camels , American Horses , and American Lion all become extinct.
- from Siberia to North America covered in water.
- becomes an island when waters break through on the western end to the interior lake.
- , Bison , and Paleolithic hunters withdraw to the Sub-Arctic , leaving the rest to forest animals like Deer , Auroch , and Mesolithic Foragers . (1967 McEvedy)
- '' Homo Floresiensis '', the Human 's last known surviving close relative, becomes extinct.
- brings transient improvement in climate. Sea levels rise abruptly and massive inland flooding occurs due to Glacier melt.
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.
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