(Pleistocene, Paleolithic - 10th millennium BC - 9th millennium BC - other millennia)

Beginning of the Holocene epoch.

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Events:

• 10000 BC - Beginning 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.