10th millennium BC
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(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.

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Events

• circa 10000 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 Palaeolithic and Mesolithic
• Before 9000 BC - First stone structures at Jericho

Discoveries

• circa 10000 BC - ceramic of the Jomon culture in Japan

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