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The first settlements in Mesopotamia begin form (~10,000 B.C. ???)Read moreArchaeological excavations starting in the 1840s CE have revealed human settlements dating to 10,000 BCE in Mesopotamia that indicate that the fertile conditions of the land between two rivers…
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Humans in Fertile Crescent domesticate first wheats (~10,000 B.C. ???)Read moreThe origins of our modern wheat, according to genetics and archaeological studies, are found in the Karacadag mountain region of what is today southeastern Turkey–wheat makes up two of the classic eight…
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Humans invent agriculture (~10,000 B.C.)Read moreTaking root around 12,000 years ago, agriculture triggered such a change in society and the way in which people lived that its development has been dubbed the “Neolithic Revolution.”
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Neolithic farmers in the Near East domesticate the goat (~10,000 B.C.)Read moreGoats (Capra hircus) were among the first domesticated animals, adapted from the wild bezoar ibex Capra aegargus in western Asia.
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Humans invent footwear, perhaps sagebrush bark sandals in modern-day Oregon (~10,500 B.C. ???)Read moreIn 1938 archaeologist Luther Cressman (from the University of Oregon) excavated at Fort Rock Cave in central Oregon. Cressman found dozens of sandals below a layer of volcanic ash.
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Humans domesticate the sheep (~11,000 B.C ???)Read moreThe history of the domesticated sheep goes back to between 11000 and 9000 BC, and the domestication of the wild mouflon in ancient Mesopotamia.
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Bands of human begin forming in tribes, starting in the the Fertile Crescent (~11,000 B.C.)Read moreTribes of a few hundred or less began to emerge 13,000 years ago in the Fertile Crescent with harvests of abundant wild cereals.
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Humans begin implementing dental procedures for the first time, perhaps in modern-day Italy (~12,000 B.C. ???)Read moreThe earliest evidence of dental caries intervention on a Late Upper Palaeolithic modern human specimen (Villabruna) is from a burial in Northern Italy.
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Humans invent the musical bow, the world’s first stringed instrument, perhaps in modern-day France (~12,500 B.C. ???)Read moreDating to around c. 13,000 BC, a cave painting in the Trois Frères cave in France depicts what some believe is a musical bow, a hunting bow used as a single-stringed musical instrument.
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Humans reach southernmost tip of South America (~15,000 B.C.)Read moreIt is clear that people must have gotten to North America early enough for them to end up near the southern end of South America more than 14,000 years…
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Humans invent the bullroarer, perhaps in modern-day Ukraine (~18,000 B.C. ???)Read moreThe bullroarer, rhombus, or turndun, is an ancient ritual musical instrument and a device historically used for communicating over great distances.
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Kebarian Culture thrives in the Levant (~17,000 B.C.)Read moreKebarian culture was an archaeological culture in the eastern Mediterranean area (c. 18,000 to 12,500 BP). The Kebaran were a highly mobile nomadic population, composed of hunters and gatherers in the Levant and Sinai areas who…
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Humans invent pottery, perhaps in modern-day Jiangxi province in China (~18,000 B.C. ???)Read moreXianrendong and Yuchanyan caves in northern China are the oldest of a growing number of sites which support the origins of pottery as having occurred not just in the…
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Humans invent wrestling, the first ever sport (~20,000 B.C. ???)Read moreCave paintings have been found in the Lascaux caves in France that have been suggested to depict wrestling in the Upper Paleolithic around 15,300 years ago.
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Humans migrate from Siberia to Americas across the Bering Land Bridge (~20,000 B.C.)Read moreAs of 2008, genetic findings suggest that a single population of modern humans migrated from southern Siberia toward the Bering Land Bridge as early as 30,000 years ago, and…
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Humans invent maps, perhaps in modern day Czech Republic (~25,000 B.C. ???)Read moreA map-like representation of a mountain, river, valleys and routes around Pavlov in the Czech Republic has been dated to 25,000 BC.
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First permanent human settlement is built, perhaps in modern day Czech Republic (~25,000 B.C)Read moreApproximately 25,000 years ago, during the Upper Paleolithic period of the Stone Age, a small settlement was founded on the site of what is now Dolní Věstonice.
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Aboriginal Australians begin their rock painting tradition, among the oldest art in the world (~26,000 B.C. ???)Read moreThe oldest firmly dated rock art painting in Australia, dated at roughly 26,000 B.C., is a charcoal drawing on a rock fragment in the Narwala Gabarnmang rock shelter in the Northern Territory.
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