10,000 BC to 9000 BC

The 10th millennium BC marks the beginning of the Mesolithic and
Epipaleolithic period, which is the first part of the Holocene epoch.
Agriculture, based on the cultivation of primitive forms of millet and rice,
occurred in
Southwest Asia.[1] Although agriculture was being developed in the
Fertile Crescent, it would not be widely practised for another 2,000 years.
The world population is estimated as between one and ten million people,
most of whom were hunter-gatherer communities scattered over all continents
except Antarctica and Zealandia. The Würm glaciation ended,
and the beginning interglacial, which endures to this day,
allowed the re-settlement of
northern regions. The most recent glacial ended c. 10,000 BC, and
the world entered a period of global warming.

c. 10,000 BC; First cave drawings of the Mesolithic period are made, with war scenes
and religious scenes, beginnings of what became story telling, and metamorphosed into acting.
c. 10,000 BC; Bottle Gourd is domesticated and used as a carrying vessel.
c. 10,000 BC; end of the most recent glaciation.
c. 9500 BC; There is evidence of harvesting, though not necessarily cultivation, of wild
grasses in Asia Minor about this time.
c. 9500 BC; First building phase of the temple complex at Göbekli Tepe.
c. 9300 BC; figs were apparently cultivated in the Jordan River valley.[3]
c. 9000 BC; Neolithic culture began in Ancient Near East.
c. 9000 BC: Near East: First stone structures at Jericho are built.
Asia: Cave sites near the Caspian Sea are used for human habitation.
Europe: Azilian (Painted Pebble Culture) people occupy Spain, France, Switzerland,
Belgium, and Scotland.
Europe: Magdalenian culture flourishes and creates cave paintings in France.
Europe: Horse hunting begins at Solutré.
Egypt: Early sickle blades & grinding disappear and are replaced by hunting, fishing
and gathering peoples who use stone tools.
Japan: The Jōmon people use pottery, fish, hunt and gather acorns, nuts and edible seeds.
There are 10,000 known sites.
Mesopotamia: Three or more linguistic groups, including Sumerian and Semitic peoples
share a common political and cultural way of life
Mesopotamia: People begin to collect wild wheat and barley probably to make
malt then beer.
Norway: First traces of population in Randaberg.
Persia: The goat is domesticated.
Sahara: Bubalus Period.
• North America: Paleo-Indian hunter-gatherer societies live nomadically in the countryside.
• North America: Blackwater Draw forms in eastern New Mexico, evincing human activity.
• North America: Folsom people flourish throughout the Southwestern United States.
• North America: Settlement at the Nanu site in the Queen Charlotte Islands of modern
day British Columbia begins, starting the longest continual occupation in territory now
belonging to Canada.
North America: Dire Wolf, Smilodon, Giant Beaver, Ground Sloth, Giant Imperial Mammoth
(Mammuthus imperator), Jeffersonian Mammoth (Mammuthus jeffersonii),
Columbian Mammoth (Mammuthus columbi), Woolly Mammoth, Mastodons, Giant
Short-Faced Bear, American Cheetah, Scimitar Cats (Homotherium), American Camels,
American Horses, and American Lions all become extinct.
Bering Sea: Bering land bridge 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.
Europe: Permanent ecological change. The savannah-dwelling reindeer, bison, and
Paleolithic hunters withdraw to the sub-Arctic, leaving the rest to forest animals like deer,
aurochs, and Mesolithic foragers. (1967 McEvedy)
World: Allerod oscillation brings transient improvement in climate. Sea levels rise abruptly
and massive inland flooding occurs due to glacier melt.
c. 10,000 BC: This is the time setting for the film 10,000 BC.
c. 10,000 BC: Is also the setting for the Opar novels by Philip José Farmer –
Hadon of Ancient Opar and Flight to Opar
c. 9700 BC: Lake Agassiz forms.
c. 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.
9564 BC: Destruction of Atlantis, according to theosophic tradition.
C. 9500-9000 BC; In Bryan Sykes' The Seven Daughters of Eve, the 'clan mother' of
Haplogroup J lives in Asia Minor or the Fertile Crescent.