(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.
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
