10th Millennium BC
Year(s) | Event(s) | |
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c. 9700 BC |
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c. 9660 to c. 9600 BC | Younger Dryas cold period ends. Pleistocene ends and Holocene begins. Large amounts of previously glaciated land become habitable again. Some sources place the Younger Dryas as stretching from 10,800 BC to 9500 BC. This cool period was possibly caused by a shutdown of the North Atlantic thermohaline circulation (Gulf Stream/Jet Stream), due to flooding from Lake Agassiz as it reformed. | |
c. 9500 BC |
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c. 9000 BC | First stone structures at Jericho built. |
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