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.
- Bubalus Period in the Sahara
Events
- Circa 10,000 BC– Beginning of Jomon era in Japan
- Circa 10,000 BC– Ceramic of the Jomon culture in Japan is found
- Circa 10,000 BC–the dog is domesticated
- Circa 10,000 BC–Homo floresiensis, the human's last surviving relative, becomes extinct
- Circa 10,000 BC–Neolithic prehistoric statues were made, which were discovered in Nevali Cori and Göbekli Tepe near Urfa in modern-day eastern Turkey,
- Circa 9600 BC – End of the Younger Dryas cold period—boundary between Pleistocene and Holocene and traditionally the boundary between the Paleolithic and Mesolithic. Much land becomes habitable again
- Circa 9500 BC –Ancylus Lake, part of the modern-day Baltic Sea, is formed
- Sometime before 9000 BC– First stone structures at Jericho, built during the pre-agricultural Natufian culture period
de:10. Jahrtausend v. Chr.
es:X milenio adC
fr:Xe millénaire av. J.-C.
hu:10. évezred i.e.
nl:10e millennium v. Chr.
ur:9000مقم