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Mesolithic History Timeline

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1. The woolly rhinoceros goes extinct.






2. Late Glacial Maximum - end of the Last glacial period - climate warms - glaciers recede






3. Late Glacial Maximum - end of the Last glacial period - climate warms - glaciers recede






4. Chatelperronian culture in France. Kebaran culture in the Levant.






5. Emergence of Jericho - which is now one of the oldest continuously inhabited cities in the world. Giant short-faced bears and giant ground sloths go extinct. Equidae goes extinct in North America.






6. The Quaternary extinction event - which has been ongoing since the mid-Pliestocene - concludes. Many of the ice age megafauna go extinct - including the megatherium - woolly rhinoceros - Irish elk - cave bear - cave lion - and the last of the sabre-t






7. The woolly rhinoceros goes extinct.






8. The Humid Period begins in North Africa. The region that would later become the Sahara is wet and fertile - and the Aquifers are full.






9. Wisent sculpted in clay deep inside the cave now known as Le Tuc d'Audoubert in the French Pyrenees near what is now the border of Spain.






10. Emergence of Jericho - which is now one of the oldest continuously inhabited cities in the world. Giant short-faced bears and giant ground sloths go extinct. Equidae goes extinct in North America.






11. The Humid Period begins in North Africa. The region that would later become the Sahara is wet and fertile - and the Aquifers are full.






12. Land ice leaves Denmark and southern Sweden; start of the current Holocene epoch.






13. The Quaternary extinction event - which has been ongoing since the mid-Pliestocene - concludes. Many of the ice age megafauna go extinct - including the megatherium - woolly rhinoceros - Irish elk - cave bear - cave lion - and the last of the sabre-t






14. Wisent sculpted in clay deep inside the cave now known as Le Tuc d'Audoubert in the French Pyrenees near what is now the border of Spain.






15. Chatelperronian culture in France. Kebaran culture in the Levant.






16. Land ice leaves Denmark and southern Sweden; start of the current Holocene epoch.