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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– Ceramic of the Jomon culture in Japan is found
• Circa 10,000 BC–the dog is domesticated
• Circa 10,000 BC– Homo floresiensis, the human's last surviving relative, becomes extinct
• Circa 10,000 BC–Neolithic prehistoric statues were made, which were discovered in Nevali CoriNevali Cori is an early Neolithic settlement in the upper Euphrates valley, eastern Turkey, around 490 m high. It is located near the steeply cut Kantara Cay, a tributary of the Euphrates. The settlement is dated back to around 8000 BC. In this period ( P and Göbekli TepeGobekli Tepe is an early Neolithic site in southeastern Turkey. Location The site is located 15 km northeast of Urfa on the top of a range of limestone-hills that forms the southeastern extension of the Taurus-mountains. The name means "hill with a navel" near UrfaUrfa or Urhai or Edessa is a city in south eastern Turkey identified as the original Ur of the Khaldis mentioned in Genesis where Abram was born. To the Arabs it was known as Ar-Ruha and to the Greeks it was Orra . The current name is Sanliurfa . See also in modern-day eastern TurkeyTurkey (officially the Republic of Turkey Turkish Turkiye is a country located in Southwest Asia with a small part in southeastern Europe. Until 1922 the country was the center of the Ottoman Empire. The Anatolian peninsula, between the Black Sea and the,
• Circa 9600 BC – End of the Younger DryasThe Younger Dryas stadial, named after the alpine / tundra wildflower Dryas octopetala, and also referred to as the Big Freeze [1], was a brief cold climate period following the Bolling/ Allerod interstadial at the end of the Pleistocene, and preceding th cold period—boundary between Pleistocene and Holocene and traditionally the boundary between the Paleolithic and Mesolithic. Much land becomes habitable again
• Circa 9500 BC –Ancylus Lake, part of the modern-day Baltic Sea, is formed
• Sometime before 9000 BC– First stone structures at Jericho, built during the pre- agricultural Natufian culture period