Events
| The Stone Age |
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↑ before Homo (Pliocene) |
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Paleolithic
Mesolithic
Neolithic
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| ↓ Chalcolithic |
- 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. 9500 BC; Younger Dryas cold period ends.
- c. 9300 BC; figs were apparently cultivated in the Jordan River valley.
- c. 9000 BC; Neolithic culture began in Ancient Near East.
- c. 9000 BC: Near East: First stone structures at Jericho are built.
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