10th millennium BC Chr.

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Overview prehistory
Holocene	(➚ early history )
	Iron age
	late bronze age
	middle bronze age
	early bronze age
	Bronze age
	Copper Age
	Neolithic
	Mesolithic
Pleistocene	Upper Paleolithic
	Middle Paleolithic
	Early Paleolithic
	Old Stone Age
	Stone age

system	series	step	≈  age  ( mya )
quaternary	Holocene	Meghalayum	0 ⬍ 0.012
		Northgrippium
		Greenlandium
	Pleistocene	Young Pleistocene (Tarantium)	0.012 ⬍ 0.126
		Middle Pleistocene (Ionian)	0.126 ⬍ 0.781
		Calabrium	0.781 ⬍ 1.806
		Gelasium	1,806 ⬍ 2,588
deeper	deeper	deeper	older

The 10th millennium BC Chr. Describes the period of 10000 v. BC to 9000 BC Chr.

Age / Epoch

• January 1, 10000 BC Chr .: year 1 according to the Holocene calendar
• Around 9640 BC Chr .: transition from the geological epoch of the Pleistocene to the Holocene. With the end of the Younger Dryas , the last cold fluctuation at the end of the last glacial period , the Pleistocene ends and the warm period that continues to this day begins ( Neo or Flanders warm period ).
• With the change in climate came the peak of the Quaternary extinction wave . Numerous representatives of the Ice Age megafauna (e.g. cave lion , giant deer , woolly mammoth or woolly rhinoceros ) died out or were reduced to regional remnants.
• Around 9600 BC The Middle Stone Age begins in Central Europe .

Events

Ruins of Gobekli Tepe

• In North America that occurs Clovis culture in appearance. Its existence can be traced back to around 9500 to 9000 BC. To date. The tools and animal bones found identify the Clovis people as hunters and gatherers , who preferred to hunt the mammoth and other large animals.
• Around 9500 BC Chr .: oldest phase of the temple complex on the Göbekli Tepe (south-east Turkey).
• Between 9800 and 8280 BC Chr .: The southern tip of America ( Tierra del Fuego ) is settled.

Inventions and discoveries

• Around 10000 BC Chr .: Evidence of artificial skull openings in today's Morocco .

Cultures

• Africa
  • Ibéromaurusia (17,000–8,000 BC) in North Africa
  • Tschitolian (12.000-3000 v. Chr.) In western Central Africa
  • Capsia (9000–3000 BC) in Tunisia and Algeria

• Europe
  • Beuronia (9600-7000 BC) in southern Germany and northern Switzerland
  • Hensbakka or Fosna culture (9500-7000 BC) in Norway and Sweden
  • Maglemose culture (9000–6500 BC) in England , northern Germany , Denmark , southern Sweden and the Baltic States

• Middle East
  • Pre-ceramic Neolithic A (PPNA, 9500-8800 BC)

• South East Asia
  • Hoabinhian (12,000–10,000 BC), Mesolithic culture in Vietnam and neighboring countries
  • Bacson culture (9000-5000 BC), first Neolithic culture in Vietnam

• Japan
  • Jōmon period (10,000–300 BC) - Beginning Jōmon period - Jōmon I (11,000–8,000 BC)

• North America
  • Clovis culture (9050-8850 BC)

Movies

• 10,000 BC ("10,000 BC") is an American feature film directed by Roland Emmerich .
• Even Conan the Barbarian (literary model: Conan the Cimmerian of Robert E. Howard ) is located at the relevant time.

(Note: while these stories take place in said period, they do not reflect historical facts.)

Web links

Commons : 10th millennium BC Chr.  - collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

1. ^ Daniel Lenz: The human climate factor. novum publishing gmbh, ISBN 3990035045 , p. 173
2. ↑ Michael Bittl, Micha Wolf, Fritz Eicher, Erhard Godehardt, Bob Kooi, Jaap Koppedrayer: Reflexbogen : History and production. Verlag Angelika Hörnig, 2009, ISBN 3938921129 , p. 11.
3. ↑ Carsten Juwig and Catrin Kost: Pictures in archeology - an archeology of pictures ?. Waxmann Verlag, 2010, ISBN 383092321X , p. 55.
4. ↑ Ulrich Nothwang: Analysis of Osteopathologien at the beginning of the X-ray era (Case Annastift Hannover). Cuvillier Verlag, ISBN 3867277524 , p. 2.
5. ↑ The Hyborian Age in the Eridu Wiki

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