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10th millennium BC (56 words) |
 | 10000 BC - Beggining of Jomon era in Japan. |
 | 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. |
| Jomon period - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (1375 words) |
 | Based on archaeological evidence, between 35,000 BC and 30,000 BC Homo sapiens had migrated to the islands from eastern and southeastern Asia and had well-established patterns of hunting and gathering and stone toolmaking. |
 | Because of this, the earliest forms of farming are sometimes attributed to Japan (Ingpen and Wilkinson) in 10,000 BC, two thousand years before their widespread appearance in the Middle East. |
 | After 1500 BC, the climate cooled, and populations seem to have contracted dramatically. |