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Millennia:
11th millennium BC
10th millennium BC
9th millennium BC
Centuries:
100th century BC
99th century BC
98th century BC
97th century BC
96th century BC
95th century BC
94th century BC
93rd century BC
92nd century BC
91st century BC
The Stone Age
↑ before Homo (Pliocene)
Paleolithic
Lower Paleolithic Early Stone Age
Homo
Control of fire
Stone tools
Middle Paleolithic Middle Stone Age
Homo neanderthalensis
Homo sapiens
Recent African origin of modern humans
Upper Paleolithic Later Stone Age
Behavioral modernity, Atlatl, Origin of the domestic dog
Epipalaeolithic
Natufian
Mesolithic
Microliths, Bow and Arrows, Canoes
Tahunian
Heavy Neolithic
Shepherd Neolithic
Trihedral Neolithic
Pre-Pottery Neolithic
Neolithic
Neolithic Revolution Domestication
Khiamian culture
Pottery Neolithic
Pottery
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The 10th millennium BC spanned the years 10,000 BC to 9001 BC (c. 12 ka to c. 11 ka). It marks the beginning of the transition from the Palaeolithic to the Neolithic via the interim Mesolithic (Northern Europe and Western Europe) and Epipaleolithic (Levant and Near East) periods, which together form the first part of the Holocene epoch that is generally believed to have begun c. 9700 BC (c. 11.7 ka) and is the current geological epoch. It is impossible to precisely date events that happened around the time of this millennium, and all dates mentioned here are estimates mostly based on geological analysis, anthropological analysis, and radiometric dating.
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