(Pleistocene, Paleolithic – 10th millennium BC – 9th millennium BC – other millennia)

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– Beginning of Jomon era in Japan
• Circa 10,000 BC– first traces of population in Randaberg, Norway
• Circa 10,000 BC– corresponds to the star configurations of this time period, but carbon dating suggest 3000BC Africa
• Circa 10,000 BC– Suggested earlier date for origin of Sphinx in Egypt Africa
• Circa 10,000 BC– Early sickle blades & grinding disappear, replaced by hunting, fishing and gathering peoples who use stone tools Egypt
• Circa 10,000 BC– Over a period of 50 years polar temperatures rise close to 60 degrees Antartica
• Circa 10,000 BC– Cave sites for human habitation are used by the Caspian Sea Asia
• Circa 10,000 BC– The Jomon people of Japan use pottery, fish, hunt and gather acorns, nuts and edible seeds. 10k known sites. Japan
• Circa 10,000 BC– Pottery appears for the first time in Japan, similar pottery use not found in Near East till 3500 years later Asia
• Circa 10,000 BC– Proto-Celts (Neolithic man?), occupied much of North Western Europe at this time
• Circa 10,000 BC– Three or more linguistic groups sharing a common political and cultural way of life. Mesopotamia
• Circa 10,000 BC– Sumerian and Semitic speaking peoples are part of this early grouping of peoples. Mesopotamia
• Circa 10,000 BC– Armenoid can be found from Hungary to Polynesia (many Islands). Mediterraneon in origin
• Circa 10,000 BC– Sumerian-Sematic myths and legends all point to their ancestral homeland as southern Mesopotamia.
• Circa 10,000 BC– People began to collect wild wheat and barley likely to make malt then beer Iraq Turkey Syria
• Circa 10,000 BC– Mesopotamia, Nile, Indus Valley, and Jomon is among the earliest pottery cultures of the world. Japan
• Circa 10,000 BC– Early evidence for pottery, usually associated with the rise of agriculture and sedentary living Korea
• Circa 10,000 BC– Clovis (11,500-12,500 BP) Folsom (10,500-11,000 BP), and Plano (8,000-10,500 BP) cultures, North America
• Circa 10,000 BC– Extinct -Dire Wolf, Saber Tooth Cat, Giant Beaver, Ground Slouth, American Lion North America
• Circa 10,000 BC– Long Island becomes an island when waters break through on the western end to the interior lake North America
• Circa 10,000 BC– Mammoths (or mastadons) extinction, Paleo indians have cave art of them North America
• Circa 10,000 BC– Crossing of land bridge from Old to New World sinks.
• Circa 10,000 BC– Alabama, Paleo-Indian, seminomadic hunter-foragers living countryside and natural shelters Russell Cave North America
• Circa 10,000 BC– Blackwater Draw in eastern New Mexico, which evidences human activity North America
• Circa 10,000 BC– Folsom people flourish throughout Southwest at the end of the last Ice Age North America
• Circa 9600 BC – End of the Younger Dryas cold period—boundary between Pleistocene and Holocene and traditionally the boundary between the Paleolithic and Mesolithic. Much land becomes habitable again

Environmental changes

• Circa 10,000 BC– the dog is domesticated.
• Circa 10,000 BC–Homo floresiensis, the human's last known surviving close relative, becomes extinct.
• Circa 10,000 BC– Ice-free period, which has been put by different researchers everything between year 13000 and 9000 BC.????? Antartica
• Circa 10,000 BC– Ice cores from Greenland reveal a temperature increase of almost 59 degrees in the north pole Europe
• Circa 10,000 BC– Ice cores from Greenland reveal large scale release of methane hydrates from the sea floor into the atmosphere Europe
• Circa 10,000 BC– The climate of the Earth abruptly warms by 20 degrees or more and ends an Ice Age. World
• Circa 10,000 BC– No rain to cause erosion since 10 BC - If water did eroded Sphinx must have been built around this time Egypt
• Circa 10,000 BC– Younger Dryas Ends World
• Circa 10,000 BC– Rising Sea World
• Circa 10,000 BC– Massive inland flooding due to catastrophic glacier melt World
• Circa 10,000 BC– Sea level rises abrupt World
• Circa 10,000 BC– Glacial Decline World
• Circa 10,000 BC– Last period of glaciation that Earth has experienced was drawing to its close. World
• Circa 10,000 BC– Long Island becomes an island when waters break through on the western end to the interior lake North America
• Circa 9700 BC – Lake Agassiz is formed.
• Circa 9500 BC – Ancylus Lake, part of the modern-day Baltic Sea, is formed.
• Circa 9000 BC – Ice-free period, which has been put by different researchers everything between year 13000 and 9000 BC. Antartica
• Circa 9000 BC – Ice free condition in the Antarctic ended about 6000 years ago

Cultural landmarks

• Circa 10,000 BC– Ceramic of the Jomon culture in Japan is found
• Circa 10,000 BC– Neolithic prehistoric statues were made, which were discovered in Nevali Cori and Göbekli Tepe near Urfa in modern-day eastern Turkey,
• Circa 10,000 BC– Azilian people occupied Southern France and Northern Spain. The Azilian or Painted Pebble culture is also found in Spain France Switzerland Belgium and Scotland
• Circa 10,000 BC– Lapps occupied northern Europe and intermarried with the peoples in Norway Finland Sweden and Russia
• Circa 10,000 BC– Magdalenian culture flourished in France with their cave paintings
• Sometime before 9000 BC– First stone structures at Jericho, built during the pre-agricultural Natufian culture period