10th millennium BC

(Pleistocene, Paleolithic – 10th millennium BC – 9th millennium BC – other millennia)

Beginning of the Mesolithic, or Epipaleolithic time period, which is the first part of the Holocene epoch.

Events

• circa 10,000 BC – Beginning of Jomon era in Japan
• circa 9600 BC – End of the Younger Dryas cold period -- boundary between Pleistocene and Holocene and traditionally the boundary between the Paleolithic and Mesolithic
• Before 9000 BC – First stone structures at Jericho

Discoveries

• circa 10,000 BC – ceramic of the Jomon culture in Japan
• circa 10,000 BC – the dog is domesticated