10th millennium BC
Also known as 10th-millennium BC
millennium between 10,000 BC and 9001 BC
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The 10th millennium BC is the period from 10,000 BC to 9001 BC, a time when humans were making major changes like domesticating plants and animals and settling in permanent communities. This era matters because it marks the beginning of agriculture and civilization, which fundamentally transformed human society from hunting and gathering to farming and village life.
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The 10th millennium BC spanned the years 10,000 BC to 9001 BC (c. 12 ka to c. 11 ka). It marks the beginning of the transition from the Palaeolithic to the Neolithic via the interim Mesolithic (Northern Europe and Western Europe) and Epipaleolithic (Levant and Near East) periods, which together form the first part of the Holocene epoch that is generally believed to have begun c. 9700 BC (c. 11.7 ka) and is the current geological epoch. It is impossible to precisely date events that happened around the time of this millennium, and all dates mentioned here are estimates mostly based on geological analysis, anthropological analysis, and radiometric dating.
Holocene epoch