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20000
Chatelperronian culture in France. Kebaran culture in the Levant.
16000
Wisent sculpted in clay deep inside the cave now known as Le Tuc d'Audoubert in the French Pyrenees near what is now the border of Spain. Approximate age of Haplogroup V (mtDNA).
15000
The woolly rhinoceros goes extinct; approximate age of Haplogroup T (mtDNA).
14800
The Humid Period begins in North Africa. The region that would later become the Sahara is wet and fertile, and the Aquifers are full.
13000-10000
Late Glacial Maximum, end of the Last glacial period, climate warms, glaciers recede; approximate age of Haplogroup K (mtDNA).
12000
Land ice leaves Denmark and southern Sweden; start of the current Holocene epoch.
11000
Emergence of Jericho, which is now one of the oldest continuously inhabited cities in the world. Giant short-faced bears and giant ground sloths go extinct. Equidae goes extinct in North America.
10000
The Quaternary extinction event, which has been ongoing since the mid-Pleistocene, concludes. Many of the ice age megafauna go extinct, including the megatherium, woolly rhinoceros, Irish elk, cave bear, cave lion, and the last of the sabre-toothed cats. The mammoth goes extinct in Eurasia and North America, but is preserved in small island populations until ~1650 BC.
