#News: 10,000BC First cave drawings

Events[edit]

Göbekli Tepe, Şanlıurfa, 2011

c. 10,000 BC; First cave drawings of the Mesolithic period are made, with war scenes and religious scenes.
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. 9700 BC; Younger Dryas cold period and the Pleistocene epoch ends, start of the Holocene epoch.
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.

Old World[edit]

Asia: Cave sites near the Caspian Sea are used for human habitation.
Africa: Wall paintings found in Ethiopia and Eritrea depicting human activity; some of the older paintings are thought to date back to around 10,000 BC.^[4]
Europe: Azilian (Painted Pebble Culture) people occupy northern Spain and Southern France.
Europe: Magdalenian culture flourishes and creates cave paintings in France.
Europe: Horse hunting begins at Solutré.
Egypt: Early sickle blades and grinding disappear and are replaced by hunting, fishing and gathering peoples who use stone tools.^{[citation needed]}
Jordan: Wadi Faynan (WF16): large, oval-shaped building. Early farmers lived here between 9,600 and 8,200 BC, cultivating wild plants such as wild barley, pistachio, and fig trees, and hunting or herding wild goats, cattle, and gazelle.^[5]
Kurdistan: Zagros mountains near Kermanshah: very early agriculture (wheat, barley)^[6]
Syria: Jerf el-Ahmar, occupied between 9200 and 8700 BC.
Japan: The Jōmon people use pottery, fish, hunt and gather acorns, nuts and edible seeds. There are 10,000 known sites.
Mesopotamia: People begin to collect wild wheat and barley probably to make maltthen beer.
The oldest prehistoric village in the Middle East dating back to 9800 B.C., Sahneh, was located in west of Kermanshah, in Kermanshah province.
Norway: First traces of population in Randaberg.
Persia: The goat is domesticated.
Sahara: Bubalus Period.

Americas[edit]

North America[edit]

Paleo-Indian hunter-gatherer societies live nomadically in the countryside
Blackwater Draw forms in eastern New Mexico, evincing human activity
Folsom people flourish throughout the Southwestern United States
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^{[citation needed]}
Petroglyphs at Winnemucca Lake in what is today northwest Nevada were carved by this time, possibly as early as 12.8 kya BCE to as late as 8,500 BCE.^[7]

Australasia[edit]

Australia[edit]

Indigenous Australian peoples hunter-gather societies live nomadically in the countryside
Arnhem land-bridge floods over and Northern Australia is separated from Papua New Guinea
Aboriginal diet and land shift after great flooding, many Aboriginal people shift from land hunting such as the staplekangaroo and begin to fish on the new accessible coasts. Fish and turtles enter into indigenous art.
The use of the multi-purpose boomerang disappears from use in Arnhem Land and northern indigenous communities

Environmental changes[edit]

c. 10,000 BC:

North America: Dire Wolf, Smilodon, Giant Beaver, Ground Sloth, Giant 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.
- Long Island becomes an island when waters break through on the western end to the interior lake
Bering Sea: Bering land bridge from Siberia to North America covered in water
Europe: Permanent ecological change. The savannah-dwelling reindeer, bison, and Paleolithic hunters withdraw to thesub-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. 9700 BC: Lake Agassiz forms

c. 9700 BC: Younger Dryas cold period ends. Pleistocene ends and Holocene begins. Paleolithic ends and Mesolithicbegins. Large amounts of previously glaciated land become habitable again.

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‘Rice-and-Romney’
(Video)

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She’s the perfect choice because of the fact
She’s a woman and she’s black.
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Sunday, July 15, 2012

10,000BC First cave drawings