9th Millennium BC
| Year(s) |
Event(s) |
| Start |
End |
| c. 8500 BC to 7370 |
Jericho is established as one of the oldest cities in the world sometime between 8500 BC and 7370 BC |
| c. 8000 BC |
- Transition from Boreal period to Atlantic period
- Last glacial period ends
- Upper Paleolithic period ends and the Mesolithic period begins
- Old Man in the Mountain formed in New Hampshire by retreating glaciers
- Antarctica — long-term melting of the Antarctic ice sheets is under way.
- Asia — rising sea levels caused by postglacial warming.
- North America — The glaciers were receding and by 8000 BCE the Wisconsin glaciation had withdrawn completely.
- World — Inland flooding due to catastrophic glacier melt takes place in several regions.
- Neolithic Revolution, humans begin to switch from a hunter-gatherer existence, to agriculture
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