21.6 - 19.44
mi Age of Sagitarius |
 _ Deers, antelopes & goats 🦌🐂/36 Muskox Ovibos moschatus Northern Canada 20,000 - Present Least concern.png)  _ Deers, antelopes & goats 🦌🐂/37 Muskox Ovibos moschatus Northern Canada 20,000 - Present Least concern.png) 20 - 0 Muskox Ovibos moschatus N Canada Least concern |
20 - 18 2  Broken Mammoth site fossilized ivory tools at |
19.44 - 17.28  Age of Scorpio |
18,500  Cave of Altamira Bison Spain |
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18  last glacial maximum 30% of Earth covered by glaciers, & parts of northern oceans frozen |
18 - 12 6  New York ice sheet 2,000'
16 Began to melt. |
| 18 last glacial maximum. Ocean levels 350 feet lower than today. |
| 17,300 Lascaux Painting France |
17.28 - 15.12  Age of Libra |
| 17 Descendants of people from Mu migrate from India, Burma, and Tibet to Upper Egypt. |
| 17 coastal route opens from Alaska to California |
17±5 mi Emmons Lake Caldera 11x18km, Aleutian Range, >50km3/12mi3 tephra. |
17 - 12 5 Magdalenian cultures Upper Paleolithic and Mesolithic in western Europe reindeer hunters Sites: La Madeleine, Vézère valley, Tursac, in France's Dordogne, Cave of Altamira, Kents Cavern, Lascaux, Vale Boi, Cardina 1, Foz Coa, Nerja, El Parpallo, Las Caldas, Altamira. El Castillo, Ekain, Duruthy, Les Espelugues, Lortet, Goudan, Caverne du Volp, Niaux, Belvis Canecaude, Gazel, Bruniquel, La Marche, La Garenne, Abri Durif, Le rond du Barry, La Colombiere, Les Hoteaux, Grappin, Abri des Cabones, Kesslerloch, Schweizersbild, La Pierre aux Fees, Marsagny Arcy-sur-Cure. Le Trou des Nutons, Le Trou de Chaleux, Goyet, Oelknitz, Kniegrote, Teufelsbrucke, Kulna, Pekarna, Abri Tagliente, Grotte Polesinin, La Porta, Paglicci, Grotte delle Mura, Grotte Romanelli, Addaura, Levanzo preceeded by Solutrean followed by Azilian, Ahrensburg culture |
| 17 - 10 7 Epigravettian archaeological sites common in southwest, central, & southern regions of East European Plain |
| 16.9 - 15.9 1 Lake Russell S basins of Puget Sound. |
| >16,000 mi Meadowcroft settlement Lake Ontario |
| >16,000 Topper settlement Georgia USA |
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| 15 - 1900? mi Fuegian dog of Yaghan people. domesticated culpeo fox |
| 16 Atlanteans settled in Upper Egypt. |
| 16 human colonization of North America |
| 15.5 mi Buttermilk Creek settlement Mississippi USA |
| 15.05 Lake Panamint began to recede as overflow from Searles ceased. 14,925 radiocarbon years ago Lake Panamint was definitively receding. |
| 15 - 12.6 Glacial Lake Albany |
15 - 0  Darwin's fox Chloe Island Chile. When island separated from mainland. |
| 15 Dells of Wisconsin River formations |
15 - 13 2  40 Lake Missoula floods every 50 yrs. discharging about 10km³ per hour, 13x Amazon River. up to 60km³ maximum flow speed 36 meters/second 80mph/130kph |
| 15 - 2.7 12.3 mi Eburran industry East African tool assemblage 3,000 BCE, climate much drier than now. tools found with ceramics & livestock. Pastoral Africa. Before phase 5, hunting & gathering. 700 AD, a transformation from Pastoral Neolithic to Pastoral Iron Age |
15.12 - 12.96  Age of Virgo |
>15.07  Cactus Hill settlement USA |
| 15 climates warmed further |
| 15 - 13 2 Lake Allison intermittent lake formed by Missoula floods |
15  fish began to populate rivers, & technology used to harvest them, such as barbed harpoons, first appeared on Upper Angara River. People expanded northwards into Middle Lena Basin. |
| 15 Huaca Prieta settlement Peru |
| 15 - 11 4 Qadan culture S Egypt 2nd Cataract to Tushka, 250km upriver from Aswan. hunting, wild grasses and grains. water, harvest local plant life, grain not planted in ordered rows.+grinding stones and blades w/ glossy films of silica from cutting grass stems. intense inter-tribal war. 40% buried in Jebel Sahaba cemetery near Sudan on Nile show fatal wounds caused by projectiles, ritual burials. fishing, hunting, wild grain |
| 14.7 - 13.5 1.2 Meltwater pulse 1A sea level rose 16m/52 ft) & 25 meters (82 ft) in about 400–500 years, giving mean rates of roughly 40–60 mm (0.13–0.20 ft)/yr. catastrophic rise event 1 (CRE1) in Caribbean Sea. highest rates of post-glacial, eustatic sea level rise. |
14.6 - 5 9.6  African Humid Period 14.5 - 6 inside dates |
| 14.6 - 5 11.6 Lake Mega-Chad 1Mkm2/390Kmi2, larger than Caspian Sea |
| 14.8 Monte Verde Settlement Chile |
| 14.67 - 12.89 1.78 Late Glacial Interstadial. |
| 14.51 Saltville settlement USA |
14.5  West Antarctica ice sheet begins decline. |
| 14.3 Paisly settlement Washington USA |
| 14.3 - 11 3.3 Lake Chewaucan arid land around Lake Abert 461 mi2/1,190 km2 375'/114m. high water 13,000 |
| >14.2 Paige Ladson settlement Florida USA |
14.2  dog |
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| 14 - 10 4 last glacial retreat in Alpine Lakes to north of Canada–US border |
 14 - 0 South Asian river dolphin Platansita gangetica Ganges & Indus rivers Endangered |
| 14 - 12.7 1.3 Lake Whittlesey at Great Lakes. When it dropped it became lake Warren. |
| 14 Rising temperatures & increased moisture accelerated environmental change shrub tundra replaced dry steppe in many parts of Beringia. |
| 14 Triquet island settlement Canada |
| 14 Taima-Taima settlement Venezuela |
| 13.8 Manis settlement Washington USA |
| 13.5 - 12 1.5 Lake Vermont temporary lake created by retreating glaciers during close of last ice age failed catastrophically about 12,000 years ago. |
13.525  Ivory with hearth charcoal at Broken Mammoth site show contact with living Mammoths |
| 13 Reoccupation of northern territories of East European Plain |
| 13 - 3.5 9.5 Early Lake Erie. Replaced by Lake Erie. |
| 13 - 0 Humans inhabit channel islands California |
| 13 - 0 island fox Urocyon littoralis six of eight Channel Islands of California. 6SS docile, little fear of humans, easily tamed. semi-domesticated as pets, used as pelts, or for other functions, like pest control. |
| 12.8 - 8.4 4.4 Lake Agassiz was a very large glacial lake in central North America. Fed by glacial meltwater at end of the last glacial period, its area was larger than all of modern Great Lakescombined though its mean depth was not as great as that of many major lakes today. |
| 12.7 - 11.65 1.05 Lake Warren was a proglacial lake that formed in the Lake Erie basin around 12,700 when lake Whittlesey dropped in elevation |
| 12,000 mi Vicuna South America |
| 12,000 Guanaco South America |
| 13.5 "ice-free corridor" through western Canada to northern plains opened |
13  1st hunter-gatherers settle in Maya highlands & lowlands. |
13 Homo floresiensis "hobbit" 7 people found in Indonesia 400 CC cranium (up to 100 K yrs ago)
12,400 BCE ± 160 El Abra Columbia |
| 13 Conley Settlement California |
| 13 Tan./Nenana settlement Alaska, USA |
13,000  Daggett's eagle Extinct California & Nuevo León, Mexico |
| 12,890 - 11,650 1240 Bond cycle 8 Younger Dryas 1K yr cold cycle |
| 12.07 Lapo de Boquete settlement Brazil |
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| 12 Mill Bluff State Park sea stacks formation |
| 12 Rata, Edgar Cayce's past life building pyramids & miracle healing in Egypt |
12  land bridges connected islands of Borneo, Java, & Sumatra to mainland as sea decreased 30-40m. |
| 12 - 8 4 much of Gulf floor exposed |
| 12 Sumnagin culture appears over large portions of northern & eastern Siberia. sites are small & yield few artifacts of small blades struck off thin cylindrical cores. Bone tools & fishing equipment are absent. |
| 12 - 10 2 Fosna-Hensbacka complex western coast of Norway & southern Sweden to latitude 65° north became occupied by sites belonging to the |
| 12 El Abra/Tibito Columbia |
12.96 - 10.8  Age of Leo |
10.8 - 8.64 Age of Cancer |
| 11.6 Glaciers began to retreat |
| 40,000,000 animals died on American continent. |
| 12 - 8 Shift from Hunter Gatherer to food producer in some areas (West Asia initially, Egypt by 6,000) |
12 - 11.6  Moon brought from Lyra |
| 12 - 0 Holocene extinction, otherwise referred to as the 6th mass extinction or Anthropocene extinction |
12  Champlain Sea Glacier retreated N & Ice dam failed lake dropped 300 feet (91 m) within hours or days & filled w/ Sea |
  11,700 - 1907 Huia Heterolocha acutirostris N Island New Zealand |
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| 11.65 Altai flood Katun River in the Altai Republic Evidence: Gravel ripples, Giant bars, Suspension gravels, Large blocks, Ice-rafted blocks, Eddy deposits |
| 11.69 - 10.63 1.06 Lake Agassiz Emerson Phase. S outlet to a NW outlet, closure of Kaministikwia outlet in E increased North Side. Clearwater and Athabasca River system and Lake Nipigon and Minong basin ice-covered. Clearwater & Athabasca River system outlet opened. Isostatic rebound opened southern outlet for a time, creating Norcross 325m/1,066ft, Tintah 310m/1,020ft, & Upper Campbell 299m/981ft beaches. south outlet permanently closed at end of Phase. |
11.6  Great Flood kills 20,000 people in Mexico. day of dead. |
| 11.5 - 11.2 Meltwater pulse 1B |
| 11.4 - 8.5 2.9 Lake Minong became lake Superior |
| 11.38 Tagua-Tagua settlement Chile |
11,000  Göbekli Tepe Turkey |
  11 - 4 7 Woolly mammoth, Mammuthus primianius, N hemisphere |
| 11,000 YA Pulli settlement Estonia |
| 11,000 first hunter-gatherers settle in Maya highlands & lowlands. |
| 11 mi Ust'-Belaya site deer, moose, fish, dogs. fish hooks among bone & antler implements |
10,200 - 200  Neolithic Herscha Hill UK |
11.65  Black Sea deluge |
| 11.65 - 5 6.65 Lake Suguta dried |
| 11,650 Dry Falls 3.5mi/5.6km X 5.5km scalloped precipice with four major alcoves, C Washington scablands. |
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| 11,650 - 0 Aral Sea Amu Darya did not flow into shallow depression that now forms Aral Sea until |
11,650 Aiolornis incredibilis Extinct  |
| 11,650 Antillean cave rail Extinct Virgin Islands |
| 11,650 Californian turkey Extinct |
| 11,650 Cathartornis gracilis Extinct USA |
| 11,650 Cuban condor Extinct |
| 11,650 La Brea stork Extinct Western, Southern USA & Cuba |
| 11,650 Saint Croix macaw Extinct |
| 11,650 Woodward's eagle Extinct Carribean |
| 11,650 Saber-toothed salmon Extinct Western coast of Canada & U.S. |
11.4  Pigs domesticated Cyprus |
| 10.3 - 8.3 2 Bond cold cycle 7 |
| 10.63 - 9.16 .47 Lake Agazziz Nipigon Phase: series of ice advances & retreats blocked Lake Nipigon outlet & other low level outlets, creating intermittent catastrophic outbursts of water into Lake Minong basin. lower lake level ended southern outlet through ancestral Minnesota & Mississippi River system. ice sheets advanced & blocked northwestern outlet through Clearwater & Athabasca system. There were several other low level outlets into the Lake Minong basin, including Kaministikwia & Lake Nipigon outlet. These allowed large amounts of water to flow from Lake Agassiz into Lake Minong. |
| 10.6 - 4 6.6 mi Lake Chippewa replaced by lake Michigan |
4,000 BC  Llama S America Domesticated at Neolithic Revolution. |
4,000 BC  Alpaca S America Domesticated at Neolithic Revolution. |
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