9999 9900 9800 9700 9692 HOLOCENE.0117
EPOCH BEGINS (11.7
K)
(.0117-0
MA) LOWER
HOLOCENE.0117 STAGE (11.7
K)
(.00117-0 MA) MESOLITHIC
AGE
(11700-7000
BCE) Wooden
reaping knives set with flint blades used in Palestine 9600 9500 9400 9300 9200 9100 9000 End of Glaciation
Period - beginning of current
interglacial Beginnings
of animal husbandry and possibly agriculture Domesticated
sheep in north Tigris valley 8900 8800 9999 8600 9999 Neolithic
industry in the Levant 8400 Domesticated
dog near Idaho 8300 8200 8100 8000 Agriculture
develops in Levant/Middle East - cattle used 7900 7800 7700 Catal
Huyuk in Turkey - obsidian mined for tools; fertility cult indicates use of
domesticated cattle (-5700)
7600 7500 Extensive
settlements at Jericho - weaving, fotification, remains of cultivated cereals 7400 7300 7200 7100 7000 6900 6800 6700 6500 6400 6300 6200 6100 6000 5900 5800 5700