HOME Pleistocene (3MA-10000BCE) Mesolithic (9999BCE-5700 BCE) Chalcolithic (5600's-3500) History Timeline Index
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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
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End of Glaciation Period - beginning of current interglacial
Beginnings of animal husbandry and possibly agriculture
Domesticated sheep in north Tigris valley
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Neolithic industry in the Levant
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Domesticated dog near Idaho
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Agriculture develops in Levant/Middle East - cattle used
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Catal Huyuk in Turkey - obsidian mined for tools; fertility cult indicates use of domesticated cattle (-5700)
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Extensive settlements at Jericho - weaving, fotification, remains of cultivated cereals
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